Railway Navvies. A history of the men who made the railways
Details:
- Author(s) Coleman, Terry
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1965
- Pages 229pp; illus
- Publisher Hutchinson
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the working conditions, way of life, death rate, Parliamentary investigations, remuneration, etc, of the construction workers who built the 19th century railways. Sheds light on the railway services industry and on the railway contractors such as Thomas Brassey and Samuel Peto