Not on Queen Victoria's Birthday. The story of the Rio Tinto Mines
Details:
- Author(s) Avery, David
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1974
- Pages 464pp; illus
- Publisher Collins
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned account of RTZ's Spanish mines at Rio Tinto through to their sale in 1954 but focusing especially on social and political aspects and notably on the large mining community of English and Spanish that grew at Rio Tinto. Organised in two parts: 1] deals extensively with the history of the mines from 1556 to the arrival of RTZ in 1873 [pp21-135]; 2] 'International capital and the Rio Tinto Co, 1873-98'; 'Ressurrection of the mines, 1873-1914'; 'The riots of 1888'; 'The British colony, 1873-1902'; 'The Spanish community, 1873-1914'; 'The rule of Walter Browning, 1908-27'; 'The company and Spanish politics, 1888-1931'; 'Economic depression and commercial warfare, 1919-32'; 'The second republic and civil war, 1931-36'; 'Problems of war and of peace, 1936-45'; 'The end and a beginning, 1945-54'. No financial data or business context,