Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin

Disability in industrial Britain

A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948

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Produktbeschreibung

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'.

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Produktdetails

• Disability History
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781526124319
• ISBN-10: 1526124319
• Artikelnr.: 57478607

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Work, economy and disability in the British coalfields 2. Medicalising
miners in the twentieth century? Medicine, care and rehabilitation 3.
Systems of financial support for disabled miners and their families 4.
Social relations in the construction and experience of disability 5. The
politicisation of disability 6. Disability in coalfields literature
1880-1948 Bibliography Index