Disability in the Industrial Revolution: Physical Impairment in British Coalmining, 1780-1880

by David Turner, Daniel Blackie, David M. Turner

This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people's working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britain's Industrial Revolution.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526118157
• ISBN13: 9781526118158
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"