First published in 1984, this book provides the first full study of the carefully planned rising of south Wales miners and ironworkers in 1839 and of its collapse at the confrontation with soldiers of the 45th regiment of Newport. It examines not only the rising itself, but the factors that made it, if not inevitable, then likely. It argues that while the workers’ movement was an immediate response to the grim circumstances of the workplace, it was also deeply rooted in the centuries-old Welsh experience of repression. This title will be of particular interest to students of Victorian political and social history and well as the history of Wales.
Author(s): Ivor Wilks
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 270
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Maps, Figures and Tables
Dedication
Preface
Part I: Prologue
1. Wales: The Industrial Nation
2. The South Wales Rising Through the Eyes of the Press
Part II: Classes in Conflict
3. Landowners, Capitalists and the Growth of Industry
4. The Working-Class Community: Wages, Prices and Households
5. Strikes, Combinations and the Class Struggle
6. Works, Workers and the Working Men’s Associations
Part III: The 'Disturbed Districts’
7. The Arming of the Classes
8. The Revolutionary Design: A Workers’ Republic
9. The English Connection and the Agony of Frost
10. The ‘Rise’: The March on Newport
11. All the Queen’s Men: Soldiers, Magistrates and Politicians
Part IV: Considerations
12. The Peculiarities of Wales
13. The Rising Reviewed
Appendix I: The Rebel Dead
Appendix II: Committals and Trials
Index
