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

by David Turner, Daniel Blackie, David M. Turner

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...

• 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"