Modern industry started in the 18th century, and its growth accelerated throughout the 19th as production switched from metal to coal mining. By the early 20th century, about one in four Welsh workers ...

The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great ... Naturally the demand for workers was high, but in this time of heightened immigration the supply of laborers keen to make their way ...

Thus, while industries grew prodigiously in some regions of Wales, other areas experienced an industrial revolution which ... reliant for their growth on immigration. At least until the later ...

The debate about whether the industrial revolution was a good or a bad thing ... As the 19th century progressed, the rate of immigration from outside Wales increased. Most of the new arrivals ...