Introduction: Industrial South Wales, 1750-1914, W.E. Minchinton. Part 1 Population: the peopling of the Hinterland and Port of Cardiff 1801-1914, T. Mansel Hodges; the character of Welsh emigration to the United States to 1840, A.H. Dodd; the migration of labour into the Glamorganshire coalfield, 1861-1911, Brinley Thomas. Part 2 Industry: Anthony Bacon, M.P., an eighteenth-century merchant, L.B. Namier; the tinplate maker and technical change, W.E. Minchinton; the development and decline of the non-ferrous metal smelting industries in South Wales, R.O. Roberts. Part 3 Banking: early banking in Cardiff, T. Mansel Hodges; Bank of England branch discounting, 1826-59, R.O. Roberts; the history of the Newport and Caerleon Savings Bank, 1839-88, T. Mansel Hodges. Part 4 Labour: "Scotch Cattle" and early trade unionism in Wales, E.J. Jones; the South Wales sliding scale, J.H. Morris and L.J. Williams. Part 5 Housing: housebuilding in the South Wales coalfield, 1851-1913, J. Hamish Richards and J. Parry Lewis.
