Unlike in other contexts, it would seem that solidarity continued to be maintained between disabled and other workers in south Wales, and the labour movement set out to represent the interests of injured or impaired miners in quite significant ways. 61 Unlike organisations within the mesosystem, the ecosystem in the social ecology model comprises agencies beyond the control of individuals and their families yet with the ability to intervene in their lives directly and often with far-reaching consequences, whether positive or negative.
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