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Michiel de Jong|Justin Lake
Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury disease. However, the experiences disabled people within Britain’s most have gone largely unrecognised by historians. This book examines British coal through lens disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine lives miners their families.The considers at time when it one important industries, follows period growth up First World War, strikes, depression wartime, into era decline. During this time, statutory provision for changed considerably, notably with first programme state compensation workplace injury. And yet remained constant presence in as continued jobs or took ‘light work’. The burgeoning coalfields literature used images disability on frequent basis characters were represent human toll industry.A diverse range sources are economic, social, political cultural impact industry, looking beyond formal company union records include autobiographies, novels oral testimony. It argues that, far from being excluded entirely central development. will appeal students academics interested history, studies, social representations literature.
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