Disability In The Industrial Revolution: Physical Impairment In British Coalmining, 1780–1880 (Disability History)

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.

• | Author: David M. Turner|Daniel Blackie
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1526118157
• | ISBN-13: 9781526118158