Labour and the Poor Volume VIII: Wales, The Mining and Manufacturing Districts

Wales in 1850. On the ground reporting from the engine-room of industrial Britain - with personal accounts from the people themselves.

Fuelling the steam-powered factories and feeding the furnaces of Britain. This was Wales in the mid-nineteenth century, rich in coal, copper, iron-ore, and lead.

From "The Metropolis of the Iron Works", Merthyr Tydfil, to the copper works of Swansea and the lead mines of the north. This volume will take you into the Welsh towns, into the alleys and courts inha...