South Wales Miners: Glowyr De Cymru - A History of the South Wales Miners'' Federation (1914-1926)

First published in 1975, South Wales Miners starts with the War of Empires, when nearly 50,000 Welsh miners, almost one-fifth of the total manpower of their coalfield, responded to the call and voluntarily enlisted in the British armed forces. The author uncovers how the coalowners in the meantime took advantage of the war emergency to deny the remaining miners a fair recompense for their toil and of the bitter strife that followed. The book tells the story of what led up to the General Strike and here the author uses hitherto hidden sources of information. The picture is revealed of what was a virtual conspiracy between the Baldwin-Churchill Government and the mineowners, not only to cut wages and lengthen hours, but to cripple British trade unionism. When the miners held out through a seven-month lockout the efforts of these highly placed conspirators recoiled on their own heads and on the whole economy of British Empire. This book will be of interest to students of history, labour studies, economics and political science.

List of contents

Foreword Preface 1. The Outbreak of War 2. Troubles on the Home Front 3. A Climacteric Year 4. The Aftermath in 1915: War's Alarm in 1916 5. Under the State Control 6. The Spirit of Revolution 7. The Valley of Humiliation 8. A Year of Good Hope 9. Riotous Assembly in the Anthracite 10. Seven Months' Lockout Indexes

Product details

• Authors: Robert Page Arnot, Arnot Robert Page
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032551425
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3255142-5
• No. of pages: 395
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales, Economic history, South Wales, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1920 to c 1929, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Mining Industry, Extractive industries