Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers (1977)

Description

Industrial discipline in mining, quarrying, brickmaking and other classes of mineral work was very different to that in nineteenth-century factories and mills. First published in 1977, this book deals with mineral workers of every class and discusses the peculiarities and common features of their work. It offers three detailed local studies: pit life in County Durham, slate quarrying in North Wales, and saltworkers in Cheshire alongside an introductory section on mineral workers in general. The author is concerned with the family and community setting; the social relationships at the point of production itself; job control and trade unionism; and with material culture, wages and earnings. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors General editor’s introduction Part 1 Mineral workers Part 2 Y chwarelwyr : the slate quarrymen of North Wales Part 3 Cheshire saltworkers Part 4 The Durham pitman Part 5 Pit talk in county Durham Subject index Index of places