Anthony Burton's The Iron Men: The Workers of the Iron Age in Georgian PDF

By Anthony Burton

The eighteenth century observed the second one Iron Age. virtually every little thing used to be made from iron: the machines of the economic Revolution; bridges and the ships that went less than them; the trains working on their rails; and the frames of the 1st skyscrapers. yet development used to be obtained at a cost and the operating periods paid it. The knife grinders of Sheffield have been fortunate to arrive their thirtieth birthday earlier than their ruined lungs gave up, ladies chain makers have been defined as ‘The White Slaves of britain’ and, in a time sooner than well-being and defense rules, every one increase in know-how risked a brand new type of lethal accident.

Tracking either the intense innovation of the interval and the difficulty and fight that powered it, this can be the tale of the way iron replaced the realm. Anthony Burt on is the writer of greater than seventy books, many facing varied points of business and delivery historical past, together with the three-volume Anatomy of Canals, the increase and Fall of British Shipbuilding, Miners, Navvies and the employees’ struggle. He has additionally labored on over a hundred tv documentaries, together with The prior at paintings for the BBC. extra lately he has been old Adviser for 6 ten-part sequence for Discovery that experience concerned traveling commercial websites in either Europe and America.

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