Economics correspondent Sarah Dickins looks back on how things have changed over her 30-year career.
But the changes we have lived through, and I have reported on, have been much wider than production in coal, steel, oil and car parts.While rural villages may still have most people involved in the same industry, that's a far cry from the days when mining villages were dominated by the flow of the shift change as hundreds of men emerged into the light or went off for a shift in the dark.
While there were massive job losses in coal, steel and car components, there were also thousands of new jobs making microwaves, televisions, printers and washing machines. Many of the factories were owned by Japanese companies who were eager to enter the European market and by making products here in Wales they could sell anywhere across the continent.By 1990, 11,000 people worked for Japanese firms in Wales. We went to Tokyo with the Welsh Development Agency, where they were trying to get investment into Wales.
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