Abstract
Abstract This paper examines the development of the argument within the housing reform societies of Edwardian Wales that the ribbon type of housing development imposed upon the South Wales coalfield by the physical configuration of the region was in some measure responsible for labour problems in the coalfield. Drawing upon the work of Patrick Geddes, H.J. Fleure and Raymond Unwin, Welsh housing reformers held that the geography of the coalfield acted upon the processes of Anglicization and social change in the coalfield and, by limiting the horizons of a mono-industrial society, prevented the development of an appropriate'community sense' or spirit in the mining valleys. This viewpoint, developed after the shock of the Tonypandy riots and before the Addison Act, made a direct connection between housing reform and the improvement of labour relations in the South Wales coalfield. This concept came to frame the approach of investigations into mining life in the mining valleys of South Wales and gained official recognition with the publication by the Ministry of Health of the 1921 Report of the South Wales Regional Survey Committee.
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