Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, Steven Thompson

Disability in industrial Britain (eBook, ePUB)

A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526124333
• Artikelnr.: 58486704

Autorenporträt

Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin and Steven Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

1. Work, economy and disability in the British coalfields 2. Medicalising
miners in the twentieth century? Medicine, care and rehabilitation 3.
Systems of financial support for disabled miners and their families 4.
Social relations in the construction and experience of disability 5. The
politicisation of disability 6. Disability in coalfields literature
1880-1948 Bibliography Index