Author: Alekseĭ Stepanovich Khomi︠a︡kovPublisher:
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Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Last Thirty Years in a Mining District
Author: Alekseĭ Stepanovich Khomi︠a︡kovPublisher:
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Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Last Thirty Years in a Mining District
Author: IgnotusRecords and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1802
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: By the Sweat of Their Brow
Author: Angela V. JohnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136599312
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women’s work in the nineteenth century. Seen as the prime example of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an aberration in a masculine domain, cruelly torn from her ‘natural sphere’, the home. The, attempt to restrict women’s work at the mines in the 1880s highlights the dichotomy between the fashionable ideal of womanhood and the necessity and reality of female manual labour. Although only a tiny percentage of the colliery labour force, the pit lasses aroused an interest out of all proportion to their numbers and their work became a test case for women’s outdoor manual employment. Angela John discusses the implications of this debate, showing how it encapsulates many of the ambivalences of late Victorian attitudes towards working-class female employment, and at the same time raises wider questions both about women’s work in industries seen as traditionally male enclaves, and about the ways in which women within the working community have been presented by historians.This book was first published in 1980.
Guide to the Mining Laws of the World
Author: Oswald WalmesleyPublisher:
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Category : Mining law
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
South Wales and the Rising of 1839
Author: Ivor WilksPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131724074X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
First published in 1984, this book provides the first full study of the carefully planned rising of south Wales miners and ironworkers in 1839 and of its collapse at the confrontation with soldiers of the 45th regiment of Newport. It examines not only the rising itself, but the factors that made it, if not inevitable, then likely. It argues that while the workers’ movement was an immediate response to the grim circumstances of the workplace, it was also deeply rooted in the centuries-old Welsh experience of repression. This title will be of particular interest to students of Victorian political and social history and well as the history of Wales.
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