Disability in Industrial Britain

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

• 1. Work, economy and disability in the British coalfields2. Medicalising miners in the twentieth century? Medicine, care and rehabilitation3. Systems of financial support for disabled miners and their families4. Social relations in the construction and experience of disability5. The politicisation of disability6. Disability in coalfields literature 1880-1948BibliographyIndex

'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