Masters And Men- In The West Midland Metal Wear Trades Before The Industrial Revolution
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The decline of commercial carrying on English canals has seen an awakening of interest in the canal system, and especially in the men and women who worked on the boats over the water-ways. This book studies the lives of the narrowboat men who navigated over an extensive area of the Midlands. Harry Hanson discusses the economic and social condition of these people against the background of the developing canal system and its eventual decline under the impacts of the railway age. He offers new evidence challenging existing beliefs of the origins of the boatmen and the importance of 'number one', and reveals when the 'family' boat first became widespread. The lifestyle of the boatmen is studied from contemporary descriptions, and he shows how a distinctive waterway sub-culture developed through the nineteenth century. An attempt is made to establish how much truth there was in the allegations and drunkenness, violence and immortality flourished on board the narrowboats.
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