Author: JONES, MERFYN. Title: The North Wales Quarrymen 1874 - 1922.
Description: 8vo; pp. vii, 359; apendicies, bibliography, index; stiff wrapper; a fine copy. Cardiff, University Of Wales Press, 1982, This book is about the struggle of quarrymen to organise and 'combine' in the slate quarries and mines of north Wales, and particularly in the giant Penrhyn quarries. It was often a battle for survival, fought in very distinctive communities, and the struggle witnessed some of the most bitter and dramatic disputes in the history of the British working class.
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- Book number: 108029