1/ Hello, I am Beth Griffiths, a PhD candidate and ex-tinplate employee. I am going to talk about the links between the steel and tinplate industries, the changing role of women within the tinplate works and the industry's fight for survival during the last forty years. #SWOS20 
2/ Steel must be used as a base for tinplate to be made. The steel manufacturer and hot rolled coil (H.R.C.) processor is normally the same plant but not necessarily. With a global company the steel could be made in India and the H.R.C. could be processed in south Wales. #SWOS20
3/ Advances through technology enabled continuous working. The process itself follows the original route from steel to tinplate - pickling, cold reducing, cleaning, annealing, secondary rolling, coating and optional cutting. #SWOS20
5/ Why south Wales? By 1891 tinplate manufacturing had concentrated in south Wales. Ninety of the existing ninety-eight tinplate works were located in the coastal area of industrial south Wales. Ranging from Monmouthshire in the east to Kidwelly in the west. #SWOS20
6/ What caused an industry to shrink from 248,500 to 8,500 employees over a period of fifty-three years? How did the lack of community influence the choice of which works to close? #SWOS20
7/ What technological changes occurred in the steel making and tinplate process in the last century? What were the results of these changes? #SWOS20
8/ 'One inch of snow is worth a million cans', H.J. Heinz employee, 1983. How do the general population and community influence changes in demand for tinplate? What are the consequences of these influences? #SWOS20
9/ 'Heavy industry is not a place for a woman'. Women always had a place in the ‘old-type’ tinplate industry. At times women constituted nearly a quarter of the workforce. #SWOS20
12/ Females now have the same career opportunities as men and can apply for positions in parts of the company located in other countries. #SWOS20 Please see Barbara Evans and Susan Jones on thewave.co.uk/local/women-of…
13/ 13 The Twentieth Century was a very turbulent time for the steel industry but yielded results. #SWOS20
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