Author: Tom Hansell
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What happens when fossil fuels run out? How do communities and cultures survive? Central Appalachia and south Wales were built to extract coal, and faced with coal's decline, both regions have experienced economic depression, labor unrest, and out-migration. After Coal focuses on coalfield residents who chose not to leave, but instead remained in their communities and worked to build a diverse and sustainable economy. It tells the story of four decades of exchange between two mining communities on opposite sides of the Atlantic, and profiles individuals and organizations that are undertaking the critical work of regeneration. The stories in this book are told through interviews and photographs collected during the making of After Coal, a documentary film produced by the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University and directed by Tom Hansell. Considering resonances between Appalachia and Wales in the realms of labor, environment, and movements for social justice, the book approaches the transition from coal as an opportunity for marginalized people around the world to work toward safer and more egalitarian futures.
Author: Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0807887900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation. In the first history of this exceptional community, Ronald Lewis explores how Welsh immigrants made a significant contribution to the development of the American coal industry and how their rapid and successful assimilation affected Welsh American culture. Lewis describes how Welsh immigrants brought their national churches, fraternal orders and societies, love of literature and music, and, most important, their own language. Yet unlike eastern and southern Europeans and the Irish, the Welsh--even with their "foreign" ways--encountered no apparent hostility from the Americans. Often within a single generation, Welsh cultural institutions would begin to fade and a new "Welsh American" identity developed. True to the perspective of the Welsh themselves, Lewis's analysis adopts a transnational view of immigration, examining the maintenance of Welsh coal-mining culture in the United States and in Wales. By focusing on Welsh coal miners, Welsh Americans illuminates how Americanization occurred among a distinct group of skilled immigrants and demonstrates the diversity of the labor migrations to a rapidly industrializing America.
Author: Geological Survey of Great Britain
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Museum of Wales
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 175
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Geological Survey of Great Britain
Publisher:
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Great Britain. Ministry of Fuel and Power. South Wales Coalfield Committee
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ceri Thompson
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 178316154X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It is widely believed that the employment of children underground in coal mines ended in 1842. This book, in contrast, shows that young people remained an important part of the workforce up until the virtual demise of the industry in the late twentieth century. The Children’s Employment Commission was established in 1840 to expose the conditions under which children had to work underground; as we might expect, public opinion was outraged by what came to light, and a law was passed to prevent all females and boys under the age of ten from working underground. However, the lack of inspectors made the law difficult to enforce, and many females and boys under ten continued to work illegally until Parliament made school attendance compulsory in the 1860s. This popular and accessible book is a rich source of information about the working lives of children and young people in the Welsh coalfields, richly illustrated to include extensive work from Amgueddfa Cymru’s photographic archives.
Author: Leslie M. Shore
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781911038207
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