Pit women
Subtitle: coal communities in Northern England in the early twentieth century
By: Griselda Carr.
Publisher: Merlin Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Coal miners' spouses -- England, Northern -- History -- 20th century.; Coal miners -- England, Northern -- History -- 20th century.; Coal mines and mining -- England, Northern -- History -- 20th century.; Coal trade -- England, Northern -- History -- 20th century.; Women -- England, Northern -- Social conditions.
Description: "In the first half of the 20th century miners' wives worked at home almost as hard as their husbands worked in the pits, and for much longer hours. They were essential to the coal industry in so far as they kept one generation fit for work while rearing the next. Such domestic responsibilities were similar to those of all working class wives, but pit women carried them out in much more difficult circumstances than their contemporaries elsewhere. Their husbands' work was more dangerous, more dirty and, in the inter-war years, more irregular. The atmosphere of their villages was more polluted, their housing worse. Health services developed more slowly there and the acceptance of family limitations came relatively late."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-171) and index.