Mining in the Victorian Era
Author | : Cornelius McLeod Percy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cornelius McLeod Percy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cornelius McLeod Percy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan Metcalfe |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780415356978 |
This text explores recreational life during a period of economic and social change which was important to bring meaning and pleasure to the lives, often described as 'horrendous', of Victorian miners in the north-east of England.
Author | : Alan Gallop |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Child labor |
ISBN | : 9780752456980 |
Victoria's children of the dark
Author | : John Malam |
Publisher | : Wayland |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Coal miners |
ISBN | : 9780750235983 |
As a man brought up in a British coal-mining village in the 1860s, you have to endure the dangers and difficulties of working underground in a Victorian mine. Learn how to get by with a succession of handy hints such as not forgetting to take a canary down the mine with you. Find out how pit ponies are used, how the coal is mined and how to survive deep underground. You'll soon learn that you really wouldn't want to be a Victorian miner.
Author | : Angela V. John |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 113659938X |
The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women’s work in the nineteenth century. Seen as the prime example of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an aberration in a masculine domain, cruelly torn from her ‘natural sphere’, the home. The, attempt to restrict women’s work at the mines in the 1880s highlights the dichotomy between the fashionable ideal of womanhood and the necessity and reality of female manual labour. Although only a tiny percentage of the colliery labour force, the pit lasses aroused an interest out of all proportion to their numbers and their work became a test case for women’s outdoor manual employment. Angela John discusses the implications of this debate, showing how it encapsulates many of the ambivalences of late Victorian attitudes towards working-class female employment, and at the same time raises wider questions both about women’s work in industries seen as traditionally male enclaves, and about the ways in which women within the working community have been presented by historians.This book was first published in 1980.
Author | : David M. Turner |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526125781 |
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.
Author | : Catherine Mills |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351905384 |
This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of labour and industry to expanding regulation and control. It begins with an assessment of working practice in the coal and metalliferous mining industries at the dawn of the nineteenth century and the hazards involved for the miners, before charting the rise of reforming interest in these industries. The 1850 Act for the Inspection of Coal Mines in Great Britain brought tighter legislation in coal mining, yet the metalliferous miners continued to work without government-regulated safety and health controls until the early 1870s. The author explores the reasons for this, taking into account socio-economic, environmental, medical, technical, and cultural factors that determined the chronology and nature of early reform. The comparative approach between the coal and metalliferous mining sectors provides a useful model for exploring the significance of organized labour in gaining health and safety concessions, particularly as the miners in the metalliferous sector, in contrast to the colliers who unionised early, placed a high value on independence and self-sufficiency in the workplace. As an investigation into the formation of health and safety legislation in a major industry, this work will be valuable to all those with an interest in medical history, occupational health, legal history, and the social history of work in the nineteenth century.