New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History
Edited by Louise Miskell
Publication date:
15 December 2019Publisher
University of Wales PressISBN-13: 9781786835031
The aim of this volume is to tell a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian Wales. Extending their chronological scope from the early eighteenth- to the late twentieth-century, and encompassing a wider range of industries, the essays in this book combine studies of the internal organisation of workplace and production with outward-facing perspectives of Welsh industry in the context of the global economy. Chapter authors offer some important new insights into the companies, the employers, the markets and the money behind some of the key sectors of the Welsh economy, from coal to copper and from steel to manufacturing. By acknowledging the numerical significance, but often unsung importance, of the thousands who worked in domestic service, it challenges us also to reconsider what we think of as constituting ‘industry’ in Wales.