History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies write by Anthony Burton. This book was released on 2012-01-31. History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story of the men who built Britain's canals and railways – not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. There had never been a workforce like the navvies, a great army of men, moving about the country following the work as it became available. This book will tell of their extraordinary feats of strength and their often colourful lives. They lived rough, usually having to make do with huts and shelters cobbled together from whatever materials were available. They worked hard and drank hard. Often exploited by their employers, they were always liable to erupt into riots that could have fatal results. The book will look at who these men were, where they came from – and destroy the myth that they were all Irish. It is a story full of drama, but above all one of great achievements.
History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners
History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners write by Anthony Burton. This book was released on 2013-02-01. History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Since the New Stone Age various minerals have been wrested from British soil – copper, tin, gold, lead – but in later periods the key commodity was coal. Those who worked in the mines were constantly battling on two fronts: there was the continual danger of flood and explosion; and the often bitter struggles against the mine owners. This story is also one of invention and innovation, looking particularly at how the independent miners of Cornwall and Devon were at the forefront of the development of the steam engine that was to transform society. This, the second book in an exciting new series looking at Britain's most dangerous industries, is a tale of blood, sweat and death among a courageous and close-knit community that has now all but passed into history.
Temple Tracks
Temple Tracks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Temple Tracks write by Vineeta Sinha. This book was released on 2023. Temple Tracks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion. In Malaysia and Singapore, evidence of religion-making and railway-building from a colonial past is visible in multiple modes and media as memories, recollections and 'traces'.
Rough Work
Rough Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rough Work write by Ruth Bleasdale. This book was released on 2018-03-01. Rough Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial governments of British North America and the federal government of Canada between 1841 and 1882. Ruth Bleasdale’s fascinating journey into the little-known lives of these labourers and their families reveals how capital, labour and the state came together to build the transportation infrastructure that linked colonies and united an emerging nation. Combining census and community records, government documents, and newspaper archives Bleasdale elucidates the ways in which successive governments and branches of the state intervened between labour and capital and in labourers’ lives. Case studies capture the remarkable diversity across regions and time in a labour force drawn from local and international labour markets. The stories here illuminate the ways in which men and women experienced the emergence of industrial capitalism and the complex ties which bound them to local and transnational communities. Rough Work is an accessibly written yet rigorous study of the galvanization of a major segment of Canada’s labour force over four decades of social and economic transformation.
Canals: The Making of a Nation
Canals: The Making of a Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canals: The Making of a Nation write by Liz McIvor. This book was released on 2015-08-13. Canals: The Making of a Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside. But as Liz McIvor explains in the book to accompany her BBC series, the story of our canals is also the story of how modern Britain was born. It was the canals that helped open up the trade of the Industrial Revolution, furthered the new science of geology, and even ushered in a new form of architecture. The legacy of our canals is all around us. In Canals: The Making of a Nation, McIvor takes us on a journey across the network of English canals to tell a deeper story of how our waterways changed our lives. It’s a very modern tale, full of high finance and greedy investors, cheap labour and the struggle for workers’ rights, and new frontiers in family and child welfare. It’s a unique and compelling exploration of Britain’s golden age.
