Disability in industrial Britain
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 examines the British coal industry through the...
| Autores principales: | , , , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester
Manchester University Press
2019
Manchester : [2020] |
| Colección: | Disability History
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429719206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Series editors' foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Work, economy and disability in the British coalfields
- 2 Medicalising miners?
- 3 Systems of financial support for impaired miners and their families
- 4 The social relations of disability
- 5 The politics and politicisation of disability
- 6 Sites of struggle
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index
