Cwmardy by Lewis Jones
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Cwmardy
Cwmardy
Summary
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.
Cwmardy Summary
Cwmardy Reviews
'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 Knight
About Lewis Jones
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.
Additional information
GOR002805383
9781902638836
1902638832
Cwmardy by Lewis Jones
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Parthian Books
20060118
885
N/A
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