The Railway Navvies
by Terry Coleman
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This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.Tags
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Interesting look at the culture and ethos of the workers that, in the main, built the British railway system in the early Victorian era. Good choice of illustrations as well, and pretty even-handed, if slightly repetitive in spots.
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Terry Coleman has reported from eighty countries as a British foreign correspondent. He is the author of a biographical study of Thomas Hardy and of Going to America, a history of English and Irish emigration
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Technology
- DDC/MDS
- 331.7625100941 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Labor economics Labor by industry and occupation Specific industries and occupations
- LCC
- HD8039 .R3152 .G7 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class By industry or trade
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- 136
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.72)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 10
