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Disability in industrial Britain
A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948
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Artikel-Nr:
9781526124319
Veröffentl:
2020
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
06.01.2020
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Kirsti Bohata
Gewicht:
499 g
Format:
222x145x19 mm
Serie:
Disability History
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Steven Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University Mike Mantin was Research Fellow for the Disability and Industrial Society project Kirsti Bohata is Professor of English and Director of CREW, the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales at Swansea University Alexandra Jones was on a Full PhD Studentship for the Disability and Industrial Society project
This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets 'thronged with the maimed and mutilated'.
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