These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales

by B.L. Coombes

Book Overview

First published in 1939, These Poor Hands was an instant best-seller, catapulting its author, B. L. Coombes, to the front rank of proletarian writers. Coombes was born in England, but he lived for decades in the Vale of Neath in south Wales, and as the economic problems of the 1930s deepened, he turned to writing as a way to spread the word about the plight of miners and their communities to a wider world. Presenting the daily lives of miners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708315631
• ISBN13: 9780708315637
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.4"