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Rhondda (rŏn`də, Welsh rôn`thə), city (1991 pop. 70,980), Rhondda Cynon Taff, S Wales, on tributaries of the Taff River. Coal mining, once the chief occupation, has disappeared. Light manufacturing and quarrying are the main industries. A mining heritage museum is at Treharris. |
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| 14) Yet, as Mike Savage suggests, class cultures have often been regional cultures--and why should this not be true of the many and varied regional cultures of late medieval and early modern England, just as it is demonstrably true of (for instance) An-dalucian wage labourers, Rhondda miners, Catalan textile workers or Parisian proletarians in the modern epoch? Our present study arose from health concerns expressed by residents that chemicals emitted from a single landfill site in the Rhondda Valley, Wales, were the cause of congenital anomalies. `For the first time in centuries we will have some little governance of our own affairs,' says Glyn James, a former Mayor of the Rhondda. |
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