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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. 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 looks at British coal through the lens of disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of disabled miners and their families. A diverse range of sources are used to examine the economic, social, political and cultural impact of disability in the coal industry, looking beyond formal coal company and union records to include autobiographies, novels and existing oral testimony. It argues that, far from being excluded entirely from British industry, disability and disabled people were central to its development. The book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability history, disability studies, social and cultural history and representations of disability in literature. -- .Product Identifiers
PublisherManchester University Press
ISBN-139781526124319
eBay Product ID (ePID)2317679267
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Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDisability in Industrial Britain: A Cultural and Literary History of Impairment in the Coal Industry, 1880-1948
Publication Year2020
SubjectMedicine, Disability, History, Business
TypeTextbook
AuthorKirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, Steven Thompson
SeriesDisability History
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Width138 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorKirsti Bohata, Steven Thompson, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin