This article connects with and builds on recent research on workmen's compensation and disability focussing on the Scottish coalfields between the wars. It draws upon a range of primary sources including coal company accident books, court cases and trade union records to analyse efforts to define and redefine disability, examining the language deployed and the agency of workers and their advocates. It is argued here that the workmen's compensation system associated disability with restricted functionality relating to work tasks and work environments. Disability became more visible and more closely monitored and this was a notably contested and adversarial terrain in Scotland in the Depression, where employers, workers and their collective organisations increasingly deployed medical expertise to support their cases regarding working and disabled bodies. In Scotland, the miners' trade unions emerged as key advocates for the disabled.

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“底下的狗人”：1918-1939年间的战争年代，苏格兰煤田中的残疾，社会福利和倡导。

本文与有关战争之间的苏格兰煤田的工人补偿和残障的最新研究并以此为基础。它利用了一系列主要资源，包括煤炭公司的事故记录，法院案件和工会记录，以分析定义和重新定义残疾的工作，检查所使用的语言以及工人及其拥护者的代理机构。这里有人认为，工人补偿制度将残疾与与工作任务和工作环境有关的功能受限联系在一起。残疾变得更加明显，受到了更严格的监控，这是苏格兰大萧条时期的一个充​​满争议和对抗性的地形，雇主在那里，工人及其集体组织越来越多地使用医疗专业知识来支持他们有关工作和残疾人机构的案件。在苏格兰，矿工工会成为残疾人的主要拥护者。