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Book British Coal miners in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book British Coal miners in the Nineteenth Century written by John Benson and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Coalminers in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book British Coalminers in the Nineteenth Century written by John Benson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Disability in the Industrial Revolution

Download or read book Disability in the Industrial Revolution written by David M. Turner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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. The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in an industry that was vital to Britain’s economic growth. Although it is commonly assumed that industrialisation led to increasing marginalisation of people with impairments from the workforce, disabled mineworkers were expected to return to work wherever possible, and new medical services developed to assist in this endeavour. This book explores the working lives of disabled miners and analyses the medical, welfare and community responses to disablement in the coalfields. It shows how disability affected industrial relations and shaped the class identity of mineworkers. The book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability, occupational health and social history.

Book Coal Mining in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Download or read book Coal Mining in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries written by Brian Lewis and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1971 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coal Mining in Britain

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  • Author : Richard Hayman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-08-25
  • ISBN : 1784421227
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Coal Mining in Britain written by Richard Hayman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powered the engines of the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the coalfields – distinct landscapes of colliery winding frames, slag heaps and mining villages – made up Britain's industrial heartlands. Coal was known as 'black gold' but it was only brought to the surface with skill and at considerable risk, with flooding, rock falls and gas explosions a constant danger. Coal miners became a recognised force in British political life, forming a vociferous and often militant lobby for better working conditions and a decent standard of living. This beautifully illustrated guide to Britain's industrial heritage covers not just the mines, but the lives of the workers away from the pits, with a focus on the cultural and religious life of mining communities.

Book St  Clair  a Nineteenth century Coal Town s Experience with a Disaster prone Industry

Download or read book St Clair a Nineteenth century Coal Town s Experience with a Disaster prone Industry written by Anthony F. C. Wallace and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the rise and fall of a Pennsylvanian coal town, the center of violent confrontations between labor and capital.

Book The Coal Question

Download or read book The Coal Question written by Ben Fine and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive approach. An interesting analysis of the complex relationship between industrial change and political economy and an important contribution to economics, this study will be of great value to students of the theory and history of industrial change and the British coal industry.

Book Strikes and Solidarity

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  • Author : Roy A. Church
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-05-09
  • ISBN : 9780521894036
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Strikes and Solidarity written by Roy A. Church and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important contribution to the study of industrial relations, Roy Church and Quentin Outram present research into the strike activity of British coalminers from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1960s. The authors consider not only the major national strikes and lock-outs which made the industry a byword for industrial militancy, but also the multitude of small-scale strikes which formed a routine part of British colliery lifes. Strikes and Solidarity, first published in 1998, is multi-disciplinary in approach and views coalfield conflict from the perspectives offered by sociologists, industrial relations specialists, and economists, as well as social and economic historians. Church and Outram have successfully blended quantitative and qualitative investigations to explain the long-standing issues presented by industrial relations in the coalfields.

Book Economic Development of the British Coal Industry 1800 1914

Download or read book Economic Development of the British Coal Industry 1800 1914 written by B. R. Mitchell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-08-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of the economic development of the British coal industry from 1800 to the First World War.

Book Miners  Lung

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  • Author : Arthur McIvor
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-22
  • ISBN : 1317095820
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Miners Lung written by Arthur McIvor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the late nineteenth century to the present. In this way, the book addresses the important issues of occupational health and safety within the mining industry; issues that have been severely neglected in studies of health and safety in general. The authors examine the prevalent diseases, notably pneumoconiosis, emphysema and bronchitis, and evaluate the roles of key players such as the doctors, management and employers, the state and the trade unions. Throughout the book, the integration of oral testimony helps to elucidate the attitudes of workers and victims of disease, their 'machismo' work culture and socialisation to very high levels of risk on the job, as well as how and why ideas and health mentalities changed over time. This research, taken together with extensive archive material, provides a unique perspective on the nature of work, industrial relations, the meaning of masculinity in the workplace and the wider social impact of industrial disease, disability and death. The effects of contracting dust disease are shown to result invariably in seriously prescribed lifestyles and encroaching isolation. The book will appeal to those working on the history of medicine, industrial relations, social history and business history as well as labour history.

Book Our Coal Resources at the Close of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Our Coal Resources at the Close of the Nineteenth Century written by Edward Hull and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coal Question  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book The Coal Question Routledge Revivals written by Ben Fine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive three-part approach. First, Ben Fine charts the ways in which the theoretical understanding of the British coal industry has changed over the past two centuries and discusses the arguments surrounding public ownership versus the privatization of the industry. In the second part, the book presents a critical assessment of the existing literature and challenges the well-established orthodoxies by close theoretical and empirical argument. Finally, attention is paid to the role of landed property and the processes of technical change. An interesting analysis of the complex relationship between industrial change and political economy and an important contribution to economics, this study will be of great value to students of the theory and history of industrial change and the British coal industry.

Book The Riches Beneath Our Feet

Download or read book The Riches Beneath Our Feet written by Geoff Coyle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining has had a profound impact upon Britain for over 4,000 years. Geoff Coyle explores how mining has shaped Britain and its landscape, emphasising the impact on social history, and the lives of the mining people. He also considers the present state of mining and its future in Britain.

Book The Shadow of the Mine

Download or read book The Shadow of the Mine written by Huw Beynon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Their defeat doomed a way of life. The lingering sense of abandonment in former mining communities would be difficult to overstate. Yet recent electoral politics has revolved around the coalfield constituencies in Labour’s Red Wall. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them. This edition includes a new postscript on why Thatcher’s war on the miners wasn’t good for green politics. ‘Excellent’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Brilliant’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Enlightening’ GUARDIAN

Book The Industrial Revolution in Iron

Download or read book The Industrial Revolution in Iron written by Chris Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume trace the fortunes of British coal technology as it spread across the European continent, from Sweden and Russia to the Alps and Spain. They supply an authoritative picture of industrial transformation in one of the key industries of the 19th century.

Book The Miners  Unions of Northumberland and Durham

Download or read book The Miners Unions of Northumberland and Durham written by E. Welbourne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miners' Unions of Northumberland and Durham by the historian Edward Welbourne was first published in 1923. It was based on a study which had previously been awarded the Thirlwall Prize, the Seeley Medal for History, and the Gladstone Prize in the year 1921 at the University of Cambridge. The book presents an historical analysis of the charged social conditions and conflicts that shaped the coal mining industry in the north of England from the middle of the eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century.

Book The Hardest Work Under Heaven

Download or read book The Hardest Work Under Heaven written by Michael Pollard and published by Century. This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: