Disability in the Industrial Revolution

Disability in the Industrial Revolution
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.

Disability in Industrial Britain

Disability in Industrial Britain
Author: Mike Mantin
Publisher: Disability History
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-01-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781526124319

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, streets 'thronged with the maimed and mutilated'.

The Oxford Handbook of Disability History

The Oxford Handbook of Disability History
Author: Michael A. Rembis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190234954

The Oxford Handbook of Disability History features twenty-seven articles that span the diverse, global history of the disabled--from antiquity to today.

The British Industrial Revolution

The British Industrial Revolution
Author: Joel Mokyr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429974191

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 kind of ?moment? could it have been? These are just some of the larger questions among the many that economic historians continue to debate. Addressing the various interpretations and assumptions that have been attached to the concept of the Industrial Revolution, Joel Mokyr and his four distinguished contributors present and defend their views on essential aspects of the Industrial Revolution. In this revised edition, all chapters?including Mokyr's extensive introductory survey and evaluation of research in this field?are updated to consider arguments and findings advanced since the volume's initial 1993 publication. Like its predecessor, the revised edition of The British Industrial Revolution is an essential book for economic historians and, indeed, for any historian of Great Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Capitalism and Disability

Capitalism and Disability
Author: Marta Russell
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1608467163

Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell’s various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to those interested in better understanding the ways in which the modern phenomenon of disability is shaped by capitalist economic and social relations. The essays range in analysis from the theoretical to the topical, including but not limited to: the emergence of disability as a “human category” rooted in the rise of industrial capitalism and the transformation of the conditions of work, family, and society corresponding thereto; a critique of the shortcomings of a purely “civil rights approach” to addressing the persistence of disability oppression in the economic sphere, with a particular focus on the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; an examination of the changing position of disabled people within the overall system of capitalist production utilizing the Marxist economic concepts of the reserve army of the unemployed, the labor theory of value, and the exploitation of wage-labor; the effects of neoliberal capitalist policies on the living conditions and social position of disabled people as it pertains to welfare, income assistance, health care, and other social security programs; imperialism and war as a factor in the further oppression and immiseration of disabled people within the United States and globally; and the need to build unity against the divisive tendencies which hide the common economic interest shared between disabled people and the often highly-exploited direct care workers who provide services to the former.

Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850

Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850
Author: Peter Kirby
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843838842

A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change between 1780 and 1850.

Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Author: Klaus Schwab
Publisher: Currency
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1984822616

World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab offers a practical companion and field guide to his previous book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Today, technology is changing everything--how we relate to one another, the way we work, how our economies and goverments function, and even what it means to be human. One need not look hard to see how the incredible advances in artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, biotechnologies, and the internet of things are transforming society in unprecedented ways. But the Fourth Industrial Revolution is just beginning, says Schwab. And at a time of such tremendous uncertainty and such rapid change, he argues it's our actions as individuals and leaders that will determine the trajectory our future will take. We all have a responsibility - as citizens, businesses, and institutions - to work with the current of progress, not against it, to build a future that is ethical, inclusive, sustainable and prosperous. Drawing on contributions from 200 top experts in fields ranging from machine learning to geoengineering to nanotechnology, to data ethics, Schwab equips readers with the practical tools to leverage the technologies of the future to leave the world better, safer, and more resilient than we found it.

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Author: Robert C. Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2009-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521868270

Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Disability and the Victorians

Disability and the Victorians
Author: Iain Hutchison
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-04-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526145707

Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts.