Disability and the Family in South Wales Coalfield Society, c.1920–1939

'Her body [was] like a hard-worked machine': Women's work and disability in coalfields literature, 1880-1950

“…Furthermore, losing the domestic labour of a female family member could have a serious impact on the mining household because of the interdependent relationship between mining work and domestic support work. Curtis and Thompson, for example, have shown that because of the typical structure of mining families: “impairments to adult and adolescent females would have adversely affected domestic functioning” (2017: 33). In the example of ‘The Nightgown’ the husband immediately begins the search for a new wife following the death of his first wife, asking neighbours for recommendations.…”

“…Caring for children and elderly or disabled family members was an expected part of women’s domestic labour, as well as managing the overall household finances, shopping, preparing food and mending clothes. Balancing these various tasks was both physically and emotionally strenuous labour, and it is therefore unsurprising that ‘physical impairment among women servicing the coal industry as wives and mothers was […] unusually high’ (Curtis & Thompson, 2017: 27).…”

“… 6 Recent research has helped to change this, notably Curtis & Thompson 2017 and Turner & McIvor 2017. …”

Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities

“…The term "relational" features inCurtis and Thompson, "Disability and the Family in South Wales Coalfield Society, 1920-1939." The term "interdependence" is described by Turner and Blackie, "Disability and Political Activism in IndustrialisingBritain, c. 1830Britain, c. -1850 Van Oost, Verhaegh, and Oudshoorn, "From Innovation Community to Community Innovation," 183.12 Werett, "Preserving Nature," 320.…”