Disability in the Industrial Revolution: Physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780–1880

David M. Turner; Daniel Blackie

book: Disability in the Industrial Revolution

Open Access Published by Manchester University Press 2018

Disability in the Industrial Revolution

Physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780–1880

David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie

In the series Disability History

https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526125774

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About this book

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 / Editor information

David M. Turner is Professor of History at Swansea University

Daniel Blackie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History of Science and Ideas at the University of Oulu, Finland

Reviews

‘This is an interesting and ambitious book that should appeal to a wide range of readers … The authors pose important questions about disability history and arrive at several surprisingly controversial conclusions.’
Pamela L. Dale, University of Exeter, H-Net October 2018

‘Ultimately, Disability in the Industrial Revolution provides further evidence to expose the fallacy regarding the perceived lack of surviving sources to enable a study of disability as a historical topic. Indeed, despite the mammoth historiography dedicated to the histories of labour and the industrial revolution in Britain, disability had been hitherto overlooked. With its study of disability and British coalmining from 1780 to 1880, and its argument that ‘disability was essential to the Industrial Revolution’ (200), Turner and Blackie’s work succeeds in demonstrating both the potential and necessity to now centre disability during other critical events and periods in history. This legacy remains the book’s greatest achievement.’
Michael Robinson, Liverpool University, Disability and Society Review, January 2019

'[...] It has one of the few sustained discussions of miners as patients, not agents (pace the authors, labour historians have discussed miners as agents for well over a century). It is to be congratulated on noticing the part that religion paid in the experience of suffering. It has an illuminating discussion of the impact of disablement on miners’ masculinity. It has accumulated an impressive collection of quantitative and qualitative sources and has made novel uses of the latter. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it will encourage labour historians to re-engage with the history of the body.'
Labour History Review

'the book’s great strength lies in the fact that it not only adds significantly to existing understandings of the period but also points to further avenues for scholarly exploration. [...]This volume thus forms an important resource for scholars in the field of nineteenth-century British history in developing new practices that do not simply include but explicitly focus on the disabled as important historical actors in this period.'
Victorian Studies

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Front matter David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Dedication David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of figures David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Series editors’ foreword David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Publicly Available Download PDF	x
List of abbreviations David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Open Access Download PDF	1
1 Disability and work in the coal economy David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Open Access Download PDF	23
2 Medicine and the miner’s body David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Open Access Download PDF	55
3 Disability and welfare David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Open Access Download PDF	93
4 Disability, family and community David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Open Access Download PDF	128
5 The industrial politics of disablement David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Open Access Download PDF	163
Conclusion David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Open Access Download PDF	200
Select bibliography David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Open Access Download PDF	208
Index David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie Open Access Download PDF	223

Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Audience: General/trade;College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Other: 4 black & white illustrations, 1 map
Keywords: Disability; Industrial Revolution; Coalmining; Work; Welfare; Class; Industrial Relations; Community; British coalmining; coal economy; coalfield communities; disability studies; industrial politics; medical responses; mining families; physical impairments; social relations; welfare responses; British coalmining; coal economy; coalfield communities; disability studies; industrial politics; medical responses; mining families; physical impairments; social relations; welfare responses

eBook

Published: April 30, 2018
ISBN: 9781526125774