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This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new pe

This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, st

The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Indu

The Industrial Revolution remains a defining moment in the economic history of the modern world. But what kind and how much of a revolution was it? And what kin