History's most dangerous jobs : miners / Anthony Burton
- Author
- Burton, Anthony, 1934-
- Additional Titles
- Miners
- Published
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : History Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One Beginnings; Chapter Two T'owd Man; Chapter Three The Deep Pits; Chapter Four Birth of the Steam Age; Chapter Five Masters and Men; Chapter Six The First Unions; Chapter Seven Women and Children; Chapter Eight Searching for Safety; Chapter Nine The Fight for Unity; Chapter Ten Above and Below Ground; Chapter Eleven Union; Chapter Twelve Two Wars; Chapter Thirteen A Time of Struggle; Chapter Fourteen Depression and War; Chapter Fifteen Coal for the Nation; Chapter Sixteen The Last Battles; Plates; Copyright.
- Summary
- Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book tells the story of the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Geographically the book covers the regions of Devon and Cornwall, Leicester and Nottingham, Yorkshire and Lancashire, Durham and Northumberland, South Wales and Southern Scotland. This is a dramatic story, telling of two wars, the fight against the dangers of floods and explosions and the often bitter struggle against the mine owners. It is also the story of invention and innovation, in particular how the independent miners of Cornwall and Devon.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780752484785 (pbk.)
0752484788 (pbk.) - Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Kenneth & Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment; 2013
- Endowment Note
- Kenneth and Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment
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