Railway Navvy - 'that dispicable race of men'
Details:
- Author(s) Brooke, David
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1983
- Pages 216pp; illus
- Publisher David & Charles
- Place Published Newton Abbot
Topics:
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
An account of the construction workers who built the 19th century railways - their origins, working conditions, work organisation, etc. Sheds light on the railway services industry and on the railway contractors such as Thomas Brassey and Samuel Peto