Oxford LibGuides: Disability History Resources: Employment and Training

Key resources

Unwritten Histories of Disabled Workers
A History Workshop article by Gill Crawshaw on the lives of disabled mill workers in the north of England during the nineteenth century. 23 July 2023
Disability and the Trade Boards
Over 4,000 references to applications for permits of exemption for 'disabled' workers indexed & online (1914-1928).
Disability and Industrial Society
A collaborative project which looks at industrial injuries and diseases in three British coalfields between 1780 and 1948. Includes a statistical compendium to provide a snapshot of occupational disease and disability.
Disability History: 'Any Work' at the Mill
A blog post based on an exhibition at the Leeds Industrial Museum which explores the histories of employed disabled people.
Any work that wanted doing
An exhibition that brings disabled people's voices from the past and present together, highlighting their contributions to heritage and contemporary culture.
Yvette F Lane, 'Good business: Charity, capitalism, and the moral economy of the watercress and flower girls' mission, London 1866-1914' PhD Thesis 2017, Rutgers University
A thesis studying John Groom's Watercress and Flower Girls’ Mission that examines the struggle of people with disabilities to find work/independence in late 19th / early 20th centuries in context of a London and faith-based philanthropic endeavour.