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Disability in Industrial Britain

A Cultural and Literary History of Impairment in the Coal Industry, 1880-1948

Av Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, Steven Thompson

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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 disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of disabled miners and their families. A diverse range of sources are used to examine the economic, social, political and cultural impact of disability in the coal industry, looking beyond formal coal company and union records to include autobiographies, novels and existing oral testimony. It argues that, far from being excluded entirely from British industry, disability and disabled people were central to its development. The book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability history, disability studies, social and cultural history and representations of disability in literature.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
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Steven Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth UniversityMike Mantin was Research Fellow for the Disability and Industrial Society projectKirsti Bohata is Professor of English and Director of CREW, the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales at Swansea UniversityAlexandra Jones was on a Full PhD Studentship for the Disability and Industrial Society project

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'Rich sources and powerful stories animate this volume. [...] Disability in Industrial Britain is a major contribution to our understanding of the British coalfield when it was at the heart of a leading industrial economy. Bohata et al.’s emphasis on disability as a centrally constitutive part of coalfield life is highly original and forms a logical extension to the evolution of the historiography towards community, embodiment and cultural production.'Reviews in History'This volume is well written and has a clear structure which drives efficiently and engagingly to the authors’ conclusions.'Labour History Review'The authors tell not one story but many stories, highlighting distinct regional and national trajectories informed by the divergent pace of industrialization across the United Kingdom, variations in geology and geography, and distinctive religious, political, and industrial cultures. They succeed in bringing to visibility fragments of individual stories that remind us of both the difficulties and rewards of retrieving the voices of disabled people.'H-Disability, Vicky Long

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