At the coalface
By: Catherine Paton Black
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781471318122
Subjects: Coal miners' spouses; Working class women; Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985; Social conditions; Large type books; Working class; Biography
Description: "Growing up in a mining family, Cath's husband Doug promised his father he wouldn't follow in his dangerous footsteps. After struggling with terrible poverty in 1970s Scotland, Doug decided a pit job would provide his wife and young family much needed security, despite extraordinary risks to life and limb. Every day, Cath kissed her husband goodbye, not knowing if she'd see him again as he went to work at the coalface, and while her husband toiled deep below, the mother-of-five put her cooking and cleaning skills to use in the colliery canteen. In good times and bad, the miner's wives pulled together as much as their men underground. Then Thatcher swept to power and suddenly loyalties were tested and a fight for survival of a different kind ensued. One for their very existence."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: London: Headline, 2012.