TY - JOUR
T1 - The living dead of the mining industry
T2 - Deindustrialisation, sheltered workplaces and the re-employment of disabled miners in post-war Wales
AU - Thompson, Steve
PY - 2023/1/18
Y1 - 2023/1/18
N2 - This article considers the considerable efforts to provide disabled ex-miners in south Wales with alternative sources of employment in the post-war period. It focuses on Grenfell and Remploy factories, and voluntary efforts at the Maes-yr-Haf Educational Settlement at Trealaw in the Rhondda Valley and assesses the extent to which these initiatives succeeded in the provision of employment to such men and helped reduce the levels of disabled unemployment in post-war Wales. These efforts are placed in the contexts of the post-war managed economy, attempts to diversify the south Wales economy, the creation of the welfare state, and the particular industrial relations of the coal industry.
AB - This article considers the considerable efforts to provide disabled ex-miners in south Wales with alternative sources of employment in the post-war period. It focuses on Grenfell and Remploy factories, and voluntary efforts at the Maes-yr-Haf Educational Settlement at Trealaw in the Rhondda Valley and assesses the extent to which these initiatives succeeded in the provision of employment to such men and helped reduce the levels of disabled unemployment in post-war Wales. These efforts are placed in the contexts of the post-war managed economy, attempts to diversify the south Wales economy, the creation of the welfare state, and the particular industrial relations of the coal industry.
M3 - Article
SN - 0043-2431
VL - 31
JO - Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru | Welsh History Review
JF - Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru | Welsh History Review
IS - 3
ER -