Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed
very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner
husbands. The women's working days were much longer than the
miners, who typically worked an 8-hour shift. Their living
conditions were poor and lack of investment by the coal owners
greatly challenged their homemaking skills as they faced life
without many basics, such as clean water and sewerage systems.
Health services were slow to develop and women's health was only
just beginning to be of some importance to the medical profession.
Coal-miner wives in the twentieth century also had to cope with
demands put upon their families by the First World War, which
highlighted the importance of solidarity, a feature of mining
communities that had proved itself to be at the heart of colliery
village life. This follow-up book to the popular Women of the
Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century continues with the story of
Hannah's daughter as she negotiates homemaking in the most
challenging of conditions.
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