Coal in Victorian Britain
Details:
- Author(s) Benson, John, et al (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2012
- Pages 6 vols
- Publisher Pickering & Chatto
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Collection of texts from pamphlets, ephemera, books, articles, etc, touching on the history of the British coal mining industry to c1914 but mostly in the Victorian period, intended as an easy access resource. Arranged in two parts within six volumes, viz: 1] 'Coal in the Victorian economy' - a] 'Useful knowledge', b] 'Organization and production', c] 'Problems of the wold'; 2] 'Coal in Victorian society', a] 'Identities and communities', b] 'Health and accidents', c] 'Industrial relations and trade unionism'