The St Austell Bal Maidens

Women and Girls at the Mines and Clay Works

Lynne Mayers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

30 Seiten

2011
Blaize Bailey Books (Verlag)
978-0-9556896-5-9 (ISBN)

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This book records the life and work of the women and girls who worked at the mines and clay works in the St Austell area, covering some ten parishes. The region has a mining history dating back to at least the 16th Century, but the hey-day of female employment was the 19th century, when most were working at the copper mines. It was at this time that women and girls also began to be employed at the clay works. The differences in working conditions and employment practices between these industries are described. Mining went into decline from the mid 19th Century, while mechanisation removed the need for much of the manual labour at the clay works, so that the days of the bal maiden were inevitably numbered. They had all but disappeared by the turn of the 19th century, but not quite. A final chapter tells the stories of individual mine women of the area, including those who were recruited for work during World War One and World war Two.

Lynne Mayers trained in tropical agriculture, but later was ordained as a Methodist minister. Her Cornish forebears (men, women and children) had worked at the tin, copper and lead mines in the parish of Perranzabuloe. On having to take early retirement, she has continued to study the lives of women and girls who worked at the mines of the South West. Her other books include 'Bal Maidens', 'A Dangerous Place to Work', 'Voices from the Dressing Floors', 'The Tamar Bal Maidens', 'The North Coast Bal Maidens' and 'The Godolphin Bal Maidens'.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.2.2011
Verlagsort	Cinderford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	74 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	0-9556896-5-1 / 0955689651
ISBN-13	978-0-9556896-5-9 / 9780955689659
Zustand	Neuware