From Bilbao to Merthyr: Basque Industrial Migration to Wales in the Late 19th, Early 20th Centuries
Murray, Stephen
; Álvarez Gila, Óscar
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Publication place:
- Donostia-San Sebastián
- ISSN:
- 1136-6834
Summary
The skilled and non-skilled Basque workers who came to Dowlais (Wales)un the first decade of the twentieth century, arrived as a result of the rapport between the Dowlais Iron Works management and the Sociedad de Altos Hornos de Bilbao, the organisation that most of the migrants had been recruited from. The paper presents a case for E.P. Martin, the general manager of the Dowlais Works at the time, as somebody who saw the long-tem benefit of building a Basque community.Sing up and download the publications of Eusko Ikaskuntza
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