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30 - History
University of South Wales
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Article title
A famished coalfield or a 'healthy strike'? Assessing evidence of hunger in the South Wales 'Coal War' of 1898
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D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Welsh History Review
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Volume number
26
Issue number
1
First page of article
58
ISSN of journal
0083-792X
Year of publication
2012
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Number of additional authors
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Additional information
This article examines the oft-stated assertion that strikers were 'starved back to work‘. It does so, primarily, by engaging with a recent argument that the 1926 lockout was a 'healthy‘ strike, at least as far as the Welsh miners were concerned. Using a different strike (that of 1898) as a case study, I argue that historical hunger is an elusive quantity and that neither the existing quantitative or qualitative evidence can be used, with confidence, to confirm or deny the existence of a famished coalfield. This should be of interest to labour historians beyond Wales – and it‘s been framed that way.
Interdisciplinary
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Research group
1 - History Research Group
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