Aspects of Women's Working Lives in the Mining Communities of south Wales,c1891-1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5970728 |
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| Authors | Mari A Williams (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-70 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folk Life (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0430-8778 • E-ISSN: 1759-670X |
| Publisher | Maney Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/flk.1999.38.1.56 |
| OpenAlex | W1973112861 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In its Industrial Survey of South Wales which was published in 1932, the Board of Trade concluded that 'one of the outstanding characteristics of the industrial life of the region' was the extremely small proportion of female to male workers. The occupation figures of the 1921 census had revealed that females accounted for only 17.4 per cent of the total occupied population in the survey district, while in England and Wales they comprised almost 30 per cent. At this time, the economy of south Wales was almost wholly dependent on the heavy industries of coal, iron and steel, and few employment opportunities existed for members of the female population. From the early 1920s onwards, however, the fortunes of the south Wales coal industry spiralled downwards, resulting in the closure of 241 pits between 1921 and 1936 and the loss of over 140,000 jobs. In the aftermath of the General Strike of 1926, the region was plunged into a deep and prolonged economic depression and the following decade was dominated by high unemployment rates and a consequent increase in poverty and ill-health
Census · Closure (psychology · Depression (economics · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Geography · Political science · Population · Poverty · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Unemployment · Working life · Demography · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Rural development and sustainability · Scottish History and National Identity
| Highly cited | No |
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