Disability in the Industrial Revolution - Physical Impairment in British Coalmining, 17801880

This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people's working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britain's Industrial Revolution.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Disability and work in the coal economy
2. Medicine and the miner's body
3. Disability and welfare
4. Disability, family and community
5. The industrial politics of disablement
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index

About the author

David M. Turner is Professor of History at Swansea University

Daniel Blackie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History of Science and Ideas at the University of Oulu, Finland

Summary

This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people’s working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Blackie, Dr Daniel Blackie, David Turner, David M. Turner, David M. Blackie Turner, Professor David Turner, Turner David M.
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781526118158
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1815-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Disability History; Disability History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, HISTORY / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Disability: social aspects, Sociology: work & labour, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Sociology: work and labour, C 1700 To C 1800, Industrialisation and industrial history, Energy industries and utilities, Coal & Solid Fuel Industries