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Matheson, Rosa

 
9780752453019: Doing Time Inside: Apprenticeship and Training in GWR's Swindon Works
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ISBN 10: 0752453017 ISBN 13: 9780752453019
Editorial: The History Press, 2011

Sinopsis

The Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works was the largest employer in the area, even during the early British Railway years. For well over a hundred years thousands of apprentices and ‘trainees’ passed through its doors to learn the trades of the railways. Throughout its lifetime the apprenticeship process was hard work with many constraints, particularly in the early periods when even marriage was forbidden. However, alongside the hard work of ‘doing time’ (a colloquial term for apprenticeship), there were undoubtedly good times as the young boys were absorbed into the ‘family’ of workers ‘Inside’ (as Swindon Works was known locally). Doing Time Inside chronicles the changes of the apprenticeship process from its earliest times during the Industrial Revolution; through the varied work of two world war periods; the changes of thinking and policy in the post-war era; the significant developments of the 1960s; and the decline of apprenticeship until the closure of the Works in 1986. Full of fascinating photographs and documents, many previously unpublished, as well as numerous engaging first-hand accounts of the different ‘apprenticeships’ on offer, the books presents an in-depth study of apprenticeship in the railway world.

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Dr ROSA MATHESON is Swindon’s best-known railway author. A long-time enthusiast of Swindon Works, GWR and women’s railway history, she has a large collection of memorabilia, has written a number of books and articles, and is active in presenting talks to the community. She has previously written Death, Dynamite and Disaster: A Grisly Railway History, Terror in the Tunnels, The GWR Story, Apprenticeship and Training in GWR’s Swindon Works, TRIP: The Annual Holiday for GWR’s Swindon Works, and The Fair Sex: Women and the GWR for The History Press.

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Editorial
The History Press
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0752453017
ISBN 13 
9780752453019
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
160
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