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Disability in Industrial Britain : A Cultural and Literary History of Impairment in the Coal Industry, 1880-1948 by Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, Steven Thompson, Julie Anderson, JULIE ANDERSON is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain's most dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by historians. This book examines the British coal industry through the lens of disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of disabled miners and their families. The book considers the coal industry at a time when it was one of Britain's most important industries, and follows it through a period of growth up to the First World War, through strikes, depression and wartime, and into an era of decline. During this time, the statutory provision for disabled people changed considerably, most notably with the first programme of state compensation for workplace injury. And yet disabled people remained a constant presence in the industry as many disabled miners continued their jobs or took up 'light work'. The burgeoning coalfields literature used images of disability on a frequent basis and disabled characters were used to represent the human toll of the industry. A diverse range of sources are used to examine the economic, social, politi
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- Author
- Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, Steven Thompson, Julie Anderson, JULIE ANDERSON
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526124319
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Management, Medical
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