From Bilbao to MerthyrBasque industrial migration to Wales in the late 19th, early 20th centuries

  1. Oscar Álvarez Gila 1
  2. Stephen Murray 2
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

  2. 2 Swansea University (United Kingdom)
Journal:
Vasconia: Cuadernos de historia - geografía

ISSN: 1136-6834

Year of publication: 2014

Issue: 39

Pages: 5-26

Type: Article

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Abstract

The skilled and non-skilled Basque workers who came to Dowlais (Wales) in the irst 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-term beneit of building a Basque community.

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