Author: Edward HullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Coal-fields of Great Britain
Author: Edward HullThe Shadow of the Mine
Author: Huw BeynonPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839767987
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Their defeat doomed a way of life. The lingering sense of abandonment in former mining communities would be difficult to overstate. Yet recent electoral politics has revolved around the coalfield constituencies in Labour’s Red Wall. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them. This edition includes a new postscript on why Thatcher’s war on the miners wasn’t good for green politics. ‘Excellent’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Brilliant’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Enlightening’ GUARDIAN
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
Author: David M. TurnerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526125781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in an industry that was vital to Britain’s economic growth. Although it is commonly assumed that industrialisation led to increasing marginalisation of people with impairments from the workforce, disabled mineworkers were expected to return to work wherever possible, and new medical services developed to assist in this endeavour. This book explores the working lives of disabled miners and analyses the medical, welfare and community responses to disablement in the coalfields. It shows how disability affected industrial relations and shaped the class identity of mineworkers. The book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability, occupational health and social history.
The Coal Question; an Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines
Author: William Stanley JevonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Disability in Industrial Britain
Author: Mike MantinPublisher: Disability History
ISBN: 9781526124319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets 'thronged with the maimed and mutilated'.
The Coal-fields of Great Britain
Author: Edward HullThe Geology of Coal and Coal-mining
Author: Walcot GibsonThe Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain
Author: Sir Andrew Crombie RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Author: Walter McLeod
Author: Ramsay