The Entrepreneurial Society Of The Rhondda Valleys 1840 1920

Author : Richard Griffiths
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783164174
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920 written by Richard Griffiths and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first significant study of the entrepreneurial society created by the Welsh coal boom (most books up to now having concentrated upon the workers and the unions). Using the Porth-Pontypridd area as its example, it looks closely at the networks of power created by the second-generation middle classes of the Valleys towns, and at the often hair-raising business methods that they used. Close examination of individuals, and of family groups, gives a vivid sense of the reality of the relationships and contacts, and of the nature of the society in which they moved.

Author : Richard Griffiths
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708322913
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920 written by Richard Griffiths and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. Until now, almost everything written about the society created by the Welsh coal industry has been about the workers and the unions, and there has been a significant gap, which needed to be filled if a rounded picture of life in the south Wales valleys during the coal boom was to be achieved. The book looks at the various sources of wealth in the area - coal owning, railway building, possession of land in crucial areas, contracting, building, property development, shopkeeping - and at the various origins from which the first-generation entrepreneurs came. It then examines closely the networks of power and influence that built up among the second-generation entrepreneurs in the close and claustrophobic middle-class society of the Porth-Pontypridd area. Its method is to take one extended family central to that society, together with its vast network of friends and collaborators, and to examine in great detail, from original sources, the often hair-raising business methods of these people, as well as their conflicts of interest at times of industrial unrest. At the same time, the changes in Valleys life are mirrored in the history of this group: the original 'rags-to-riches' stories of so many of the first generation; the self-sufficient confidence of so many of the second generation, for whom the coal boom seemed bound to last for ever; and the gradual move, thereafter, out of the coal industry and down to the towns on the coast, just in time to avoid the decline of the industry.

Author : Louise Miskell
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786835029
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399062638
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Author : David Moore
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1913634914
Total Pages : 180 pages
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Author : Mari A. Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
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Author : John Elliott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914 written by John Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the substantial contribution of the Ebbw valleys to industrial change in the modern world, in particular the development of the coalmining, iron and steel industries and transport in the area from 1780-1914, with detailed notes and bibliography. 20 black-and-white illustrations and 2 maps.

Author : Trevor Herbert
Publisher : Cardiff : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
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