Cwmardy
Published on 18. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
885 pages
978-1-902638-83-6 (ISBN)
Description
Paints a graphic portrait of the casual exploitation, tragedy and violence as well as the political hope and humanity of south Wales industrial workers of the 1920s and 1930s. Big Jim and his partner Shan endure and overcome the impact of strikes, riots and war, while their son Len emerges as a sharp thinker and dynamic political organiser.
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'Lewis Jones produced two novels that remain classics of international industrial fiction and testify to the oppressed but resistant and creative character of industrial south Wales.' Stephen KnightMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-902638-83-6 (9781902638836)
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Born in Clydach Vale in 1897, Lewis Jones started work underground at twelve in the Cambrian Combine Colliery, central in the famous 1910-1911 strike culminating in the Tonypandy riots. Jones became a full-time worker for the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, and led a number of the famous hunger marches of the 1930s from Wales to London. He was elected to the Glamorgan County Council in 1936, and died in 1939, after addressing numerous public meetings in support of the Spanish Republic. Cwmardy (1937) and We Live(1939) are his two epic novels of the experience of South Wales from the 1890s to the 1930s.