From Bilbao to Merthyr: Basque Industrial Migration to Wales in the Late 19th, Early 20th Centuries

Murray, Stephen
; Álvarez Gila, Óscar

Publication year:

2013

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

The skilled and non-skilled Basque workers who came to Dowlais (Wales)un the first 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-tem benefit of building a Basque community.