The influx of laborers required to operate mills during the early 1800s are responsible for shaping the culturally diverse population of the city.

The debate about whether the industrial revolution was a good or a bad thing ... As the 19th century progressed, the rate of immigration from outside Wales increased. Most of the new arrivals ...

Thus, while industries grew prodigiously in some regions of Wales, other areas experienced an industrial revolution which ... reliant for their growth on immigration. At least until the later ...