Pit Women

Coal Communities in Northern England in the Early Twentieth Century

By: Griselda Carr

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Paperback | 8 August 2001

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Focusing on the family, this book offers perspectives on how mining life of the early 20th century influenced the dynamics of male and female relationships. Depicting women as the CEOs of mining families, it describes how miners depended upon their wives and sometimes daughters to help them recuperate from their hard hours of underground labor. Responsible for meals, laundry, money management, and social planning, these women, young or old, shouldered the burden of maintaining a healthy family among the rigors of strikes, closures, accidents, and deaths within mining communities.

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"An invaluable resource. Richly detailed, thoroughly researched and well written, it is an invaluable addition." --"Socialist History" ""Pit Women" paints a fascinating portrait of the everyday lives of women . . . an excellent choice for readers." --"Journal of Marriage and Family" An invaluable resource. Richly detailed, thoroughly researched and well written, it is an invaluable addition. "Socialist History"" "Pit Women" paints a fascinating portrait of the everyday lives of women . . . an excellent choice for readers. "Journal of Marriage and Family""

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Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction: How This Project Began	p. 1
The Coal Industry in the Early-Twentieth Century	p. 6
Mining Communities	p. 16
The Women's Place	p. 32
Housing: the Encapsulating Environment	p. 46
Ill-health: the Continuing Worry	p. 60
Children: the Centre of their Mother's World	p. 78
'Mothers' Apprentices': the Socialization of Girls	p. 92
Women's Networks	p. 108
Formal Organizations for Women	p. 118
The Impact of Some Prolonged Industrial Struggles on Women's Lives	p. 130
Some Concluding Comments	p. 154
References	p. 156
Index	p. 172
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