Disability in Industrial Britain: A Cultural and Literary History of Impairment in the Coal Industry, 1880-1948

by Kirsti Bohata, Steven Thompson, Alexandra Jones, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526124319
• ISBN13: 9781526124319
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.6"