New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History e-bog

* The book features eight chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of Welsh industry and tackling a range of themes from gender to class, and from and identity to globalisation. A substantial introductory essay surveys the main developments in the historical study of industrial Wales, serving as a useful introduction not only to this volume, but also to the historiography of Welsh economic and industrial history. There is a particularly strong concentration of chapters on the twentieth century, hitherto probably the most neglected period of study in modern Welsh industrial history. The four chapters in the volume which deal exclusively with the twentieth century offer some important new insights, particularly into the Welsh steel and manufacturing industries. The volume features an extensive bibliography, providing students and other academic readers a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for further reading and research. A number of graphs, tables and illustrations give the volume a visual dimension and provide some key quantitative data on patterns of employment, production and output.