These Poor Hands The Autobiography Of A Miner Working In South Wales 1939

Author : Bill Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783160853
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Poor Hands written by Bill Jones and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2002-11-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales', was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born migrant, had lived in the Vale of Neath since before the First World War, but only turned to writing in the 1930s as a way of communicating the plight of the miners and their communities to the wider world. "These Poor Hands" 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. It demonstrates Coombes' desire to offer an accurate 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. Long out of print, "These Poor Hands" has been recognised for over sixty years as the classic miner's autobiography.

Author : Bert Lewis Coombes
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013816208
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Poor Hands; the Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales; 1939 written by Bert Lewis Coombes and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : B. L. Coombes
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447496191
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Poor Hands - The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales written by B. L. Coombes and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coombes' title These Poor Hands first published in 1939, was an instant best-seller, catapulting the author to the forefront of proletarian writers. Coombes was born in England, but he lived for a large part of his in the Vale of Neath, South Wales, and as the economic problems of the 30s worsened, he turned to writing as a way to spread the news of the plight of miners and their communities to the wider world. He presented the daily life 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 pure human potential.

Author : B. L. Coombes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book These Poor Hands, the Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales, by B.L. Coombes written by B. L. Coombes and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. S. Bain
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521215473
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Industrial Relations written by G. S. Bain and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1979-03-29 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference book comprising a bibliography aiming to bring together secondary source interdisciplinary material on labour relations in the UK between the years 1880 and 1970 - covers employees attitudes, trade unions and employees associations, employers organizations, the labour market and working conditions, etc.

Author : William D. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book B. L. Coombes written by William D. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most distinctive voices of the south Wales coalfield. Considered by Raymond Williams to be 'the most effective writing about mining life in South Wales', the work of B. L. Coombes portrays coal-mining and coalfield society in south Wales in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in England in 1893, Coombes began to work in the mines before the First World War, coming to prominence as a miner-writer in the late 1930s. His autobiography, These Poor Hands, was published in 1939 and was followed by two further books, Those Clouded Hills and Miners Day, as well as by hundreds of shorter pieces of fiction and non-fiction Drawing on new archival sources as well as on Coombes's published work, this volume examines the man, his writings and the society of which he was a part.

Author : Sabine Asmus
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527524388
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Modern Wales written by Sabine Asmus and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses issues of Welsh literature, history and the vernacular language of the devolved region of Wales (as a part of the United Kingdom of Northern Ireland and Great Britain). In this context, the volume sheds light on various aspects of the identity construction of a small nation with an endangered language, which is a P-Celtic tongue, known for exhibiting many features alien to Indo-European and SAE languages. All the issues tackled here are presented in diachronic and synchronic perspective, allowing for correlations to be drawn with similar problems faced by other cultures. As such, the volume will be of interest to anyone promoting Wales and Welsh culture within and outside the country, as well as journalists, politicians, linguists, literary scholars, historians, and those interested in areal studies focusing on the UK.

Author : Gary Dobbs
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473864631
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cardiff and the Valleys at War, 1939–45 written by Gary Dobbs and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, Cardiff and its surroundings, like every other city, town, hamlet and village in the country, sent forth large numbers of young men to fight against the oppression of Hitler and the Nazis. This is a story not only of the war itself, but of the way war affected those far away from the battlefields, and of how a nation stood together in the face of a seemingly unstoppable force.The book pays particular attention to the way Welsh society changed during the war years, far reaching changes that are still felt in the country today. The book details the enormity of the human sacrifice paid by the people of Cardiff and its surrounding areas, but also contains many examples of the way ordinary people stood proud, defiant in their determination to bring about the downfall of the Nazis. Lavishly illustrated with over fifty original and modern-day photographs, this book is essential reading for anyone interest in military and social history.

Author : Hester Barron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199575045
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1926 Miners' Lockout written by Hester Barron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities.

Author : Jörg Arnold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198887698
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization written by Jörg Arnold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British coal industry no longer exists and yet the figure of the coal miner lives on in the British cultural imagination. In feature films and documentaries, miners are typically portrayed as proletarian traditionalists working in a dying industry. Taking this perspective, the 1984/85 miners' strike seems a desperate last stand against forces much bigger than the miners themselves -- not just the Thatcher government but the tide of historical change itself. In this ground-breaking study, Jörg Arnold challenges a declinist reading of the people working in one of Britain's most important energy industries. The study makes extensive use of previously inaccessible records to offer a new account of the British miner in the age of de-industrialisation. The book situates the miners in broader structures of feeling, and reconstructs the miners' sense of the past and the future. Arnold argues that Britain's miners went through a cyclical movement -- from loser to winner and back again -- as Britain underwent a de-industrial revolution in the final decades of the twentieth century. The book reinserts the industry's 'new dawn' of the 1970s into the story of coal and shows that the miners wielded real power. The industry's reversal of fortunes, inscribed in Plan for Coal (1974), proved short-lived. It was significant all the same. Its significance, the book argues, did not lie in affecting the long-term trajectory of the coal industry. Rather, the 'new dawn' was important in raising the political and cultural stakes. The miners found themselves at the centre of sharply conflicting visions of the future at a critical juncture in Britain's history. The figure of the coal miner became invested with sharply contrasting characteristics: hero and villain, underdog and enemy, proletarian traditionalist and standard bearer of Socialist advance. The miners were no mere spectators in this process. They were agents, thought to be uniquely powerful by their numerous opponents, and half believing in this power themselves. The miners' special nature, however, jarred with the aspiration to lead an ordinary life, producing tensions that were most cruelly exposed in the year-long strike of 1984/1985.