Hazardous Occupation. Women and girls of the Cornish explosives industries, 1800-1920
Details:
- Author(s) Mayers, Lynne
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2014
- Pages 77pp; illus
- Publisher Blaize Bailey Books
Topics:
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Describes the work and working conditions of women and girls in gunpowder mills, fuse factories, munition works, etc, of Cornwall. Written by a local specialist in the history of women in Cornwall's mining, etc, industries. Has chapters: 'The gunpowder works'; 'The fuse factories'; 'Some 'improved' gunpowders'; 'The high explosives works'; 'The munition works, WW1'; 'So many accidents'; 'This hazardous place to work'. Includes much about individual works and their working conditions / accident record