Arthur Mcivor: 2 books
Miners' Lung
A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the late nineteenth century to the present. In this way, the book addresses the important issues of occupational health...
Men in reserve
British civilian masculinities in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore...