At the Coalface

Growing up in a mining family, Cath''s husband Doug promised his father he wouldn''t follow in his dangerous footsteps. But after struggling with terrible poverty in 1970s Scotland, Doug decided a pit job would provide his wife and young family much needed security, despite extraordinary risks to life and limb. Every day, Cath kissed her husband goodbye, not knowing if she''d see him again as he went to work at the coalface. And while her husband toiled deep below, the mother-of-five put her cooking and cleaning skills to use in the colliery canteen. In good times and bad, the miner''s wives pulled together as much as their men underground. Then Thatcher swept to power and suddenly loyalties were tested and a fight for survival of a different kind ensued. One for their very existence.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Catherine Paton Black, Black Catherine Paton, Catherine Paton Black
• Editore: Headline
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 07.06.2012
• Categoria: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie
• EAN: 9780755363254
• ISBN: 978-0-7553-6325-4
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13 x 19.9 x 2.4 cm
• Categorie: Memoir, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, True stories, Mining, family, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining, non-fiction, Scotland, mother, Autobiography, Mining technology & engineering, Mining technology and engineering, Social Problems, Extractive industries, Social Issues, personal memoir, Real-life stories, courtship, 1980s britain, pickets, Political turmoil, Social turmoil, Miners’ Strike, scabs, life after the miners’ strike, working in the pit, breaking the strike, supporting the strikers, Maggie Thatcher and the miners’ strike, coalmining, recent history books, life as miner’s wife