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The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920
Power and Influence in the Porth-Pontypridd Region
Richard Griffiths
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The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920
Power and Influence in the Porth-Pontypridd Region
Richard Griffiths
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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.
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1 The South Wales Coal Industry
1 Most of the information in this section (except where otherwise indicated) relies on the accounts in J. H. Morris and L. J. Williams, The South Wales Coal Industry 1841â1875 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1958), Trevor Boyns, Colin Baber and Dennis Thomas, âThe iron, steel and tinplate industries, 1750â1914â, John Williams,â The coal industry 1750â1914â, and Harold Pollins, âThe development of transport, 1750â1914â, the last three all in the Glamorgan County History, Vol. 5: Industrial Glamorgan from 1700 to 1970 (Cardiff: Glamorgan County History Trust Ltd, 1980).
2 Michael Asteris, âThe rise and decline of south Wales coal exports, 1870â1930â, Welsh History Review, 13, 26.
3 Most of the information in this section (except where indicated otherwise) is taken from E. D. Lewis, The Rhondda Valleys (Cardiff: University College Cardiff Press, 1984).
4 Matthew Cope, âMarriage and industrial enterpriseâ, Western Mail, 14 April 1928.
5 Lewis, The Rhondda Valleys, p. 42
6 D. S. M. Barrie, The Taff Vale Railway, p. 8.
7 âBituminous coal working in the lower Rhondda, 1809â1855â, chapter 3 of Lewis, The Rhondda Valleys, pp. 36â65.
8 John Williams, âThe coal industry 1750â1914â, p. 182.
9 Morris and Williams, The South Wales Coal Industry, p. 111.
10 Lewis, The Rhondda Valleys, pp. 67â9.
11 Matthew Cope, âMarriage and industrial enterpriseâ, Western Mail, 14 April 1928.
12 âSteam coal working by private and joint stock enterprise, 1854â84â, part of chapter 4, Lewis, The Rhondda Valleys, pp. 69â76.
13 Chris Williams, Democratic Rhondda: Politics and Society, 1885â1951 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996), p. 15.
14 âRhonddaâ, in John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur I. Lynch (eds), The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (Cardiff, University of Wales
15 Press, 2008), p. 746.
16 Lewis, The Rhondda Valleys, p. 241.
17 Quentin Outram, âClass warriors: the coalownersâ, in John Mcllroy, Alan Campbell and Keith Gildart (eds), Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining lockout (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004), pp. 115â16.
18 L. J. Williams, âCapitalists and coalownersâ, Glamorgan County History, 6: Glamorgan Society 1780â1980 (Cardiff: Glamorgan County History Trust, 1988), pp. 113â4.
19 Williams, âCapitalists and coalownersâ, p. 113.
20 John Davies, Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1981), p. 215.
21 Ibid, p. 216.
22 Glamorgan Record Office, D.LLE.
23 Davies, Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute, p. 217.
24 See chapter 5.
25 Morris and Williams, The South Wales Coal Industry, pp. 116â25 Davies, Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute, p. 219.
26 William Henry Mathias was typical of such people. (See cha...