Reading list on Disability and Industrial Society by David Turner

Academic papers focussing on the presence of disability in British industrial society.

2020

Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, and Steven Thompson, Disability in Industrial Britain: A Cultural and Literary History of Impairment in the Coal Industry, 1880–1948 (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press.

2018

Daniel Blackie, ‘Disability and Work during the Industrial Revolution in Britain’ in M. Rembis, C. Kudlick, and K. E. Nielsen (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Disability History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)

David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie, Disability in the Industrial Revolution: Physical Impairment in British Coalmining, 1780–1880 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018)

2017

David M. Turner, Kirsti Bohata and Steven Thompson (eds), ‘Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives’, Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly, 37:4 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v37i4

Ben Curtis and Steven Thompson, ‘Disability and the Family in South Wales Coalfield Society, c.1920–1939’ [open access], Family & Community History, 20:1 (2017), pp.25-44

Angela Turner and Arthur McIvor, ‘Bottom Dog Men’: Disability, Social Welfare and Advocacy in the Scottish Coalfields in the Interwar Years, 1918–1939′ [open access], Scottish Historical Review, 96:2 (2017), pp.187-213

2016

Kirsti Bohata and Alexandra Jones, ‘Welsh Women’s Industrial Fiction 1880-1910’ [open access], Women’s Writing (2016) pp.1-18

Mike Mantin, ‘Coalmining and the National Scheme for Disabled Ex-Servicemen after the First World War’ [open access], Social History, 41:2 (2016), pp.155-170

2015

Ben Curtis and Steven Thompson, ‘‘This is the country of premature old men’ Ageing and Aged Miners in the South Wales Coalfield, c.1880–1947’ [open access], Cultural and Social History, 12:4 (2015), pp.587-606

Arthur McIvor, ‘Miners, silica and disability: the bi-national interplay between South Africa and the United Kingdom, c1900-1930s’ [open access], American Journal of Occupational Medicine, 58:1 (Nov 2015), pp. 23-30 

2014

Ben Curtis and Steven Thompson, ‘A Plentiful Crop of Cripples Made by All This Progress’: Disability, Artificial Limbs and Working-Class Mutualism in the South Wales Coalfield, 1890–1948’ [open access], Social History of Medicine, 27:4 (November 2014), pp.708-727

Ben Curtis, ‘The South Wales Miners’ Federation and the Perception and Representation of Risk and Danger in the Coal Industry, 1898–1947’, Morgannwg: Journal of Glamorgan History, 58 (2014), pp.71–88