These Poor Hands - The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales

Informationen zum Autor Bill Jones is a senior lecturer in the School of Art History and Archaeology at Cardiff University. Chris Williams is professor in and director of the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales at the University of Glamorgan. Klappentext First published in 1939, "These Poor Hands" was an instant best-seller, catapulting its author, B. L. Coombes, to the front rank of proletarian writers. Coombes was born in England, but he lived for decades in the Vale of Neath in south Wales, and as the economic problems of the 1930s deepened, he turned to writing as a way to spread the word about the plight of miners and their communities to a wider world. Presenting the daily lives of miners in documentary fashion, with special attention to the damaging lockouts of 1921 and 1926, "These Poor Hands" retains the power to astonish readers with its description of the ways that unfettered capitalism can lay waste to human potential. Zusammenfassung Presents! in a documentary style! the working life of the miner as well as the author's experiences in the lock-outs of 1921 and 1926. This title intends to offer an account of the lives of miners and their families! and carries a sincere moral charge in its description of the waste of human potential that is industrial capitalism in decline.

Product details

• Authors: B L Coombes, B. L. Coombes, B.l. Coombes, Bill Williams Jones
• Assisted by: Bill Jones (Editor), Chris Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2002
• EAN: 9780708315637
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-1563-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Autobiography of a Miner in So; Autobiography of a Miner in So
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Wales, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining, Autobiography, of, South Wales, South, Miner, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Working, Mining technology & engineering, Mining technology and engineering, Poor, Hands