Stearns, Peter N.
Lives of Labour: Work in a Maturing Industrial Society
(Croom Helm, 1975).
Hardback. Minor ink annotation, otherwise good in slightly creased, slightly chipped dustwrapper. viii + 424pp. Order No. NSBK-A4884
Keywords: 085664210X, labour, labor, history, industry, industrial, mature capitalism, industrialising, work, Britain, England, France, Belgium, Germany, British, English, French, Belgian, German, working classes, working class, economy, employment, occupations, economic
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
Price £24.00.
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Showler, Brian & Sinfield, Adrian, eds.
The Workless State: Studies in Unemployment
(Martin Robertson, 1981).
Foreword by Peter Townsend. Paperback. Spine creased, light soiling to edges, otherwise good. xvii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A6512
Keywords: 0855203404, unemployment, employment, work, labor, labour, twentieth century, poverty, men, politics, political economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, Keynes, government, society, tax, taxation, history
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Brewster, Margaret Maria.
Work, or Plenty to Do and How to Do It:
(T. Constable, 1953).
Paperback. Blue boards with bold lettering and illustration, soiled and worn, otherwise good. 117pp. Order No. NSBK-A13011
Keywords: 1428637338, twentieth century, work, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
Price £5.50.
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Orton, William Aylott.
Labour in Transition: A Survey of British Industrial History since 1914
(Philip Allan and Co, 1921).
Hardback. Covers worn and spine ends bumped, internally good. xvi + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A12216
Keywords: B0006D7TUU, labour, labor, work, British industrial history, 1914, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, William Aylott Orton, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work
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Sapsford, David.
Labour Market Economics:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1981).
Economics and Society Series No 9. Paperback. Covers slightly creased, otherwise good+. xi + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A11268
Keywords: 0043310834, labour, labor, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, twentieth century, 20th
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Wigham, Eric L.
Trade Unions:
(OUP, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A5148
Keywords: 0198880413, trade unions, trade unionism, labor, labour, employment, work, state, Britain, British, England, English, history, workers' rights, workers, employers, employees, Victorian, twentieth century, politics, nineteenth century
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Blaxall, Martha and Reagan, Barbara, eds.
Women and the Workplace: The Implications of Occupational Segregation
(Chicago UP, 1976).
Paperback. Covers very lightly soiled, otherwise very good. x + 326pp. Order No. NSBK-C10518
Keywords: 0226058220, women, women and work, women workers, women's studies, women's history, gender, employment, twentieth century, 20th, twentieth century, 20th, careers, labour, labor, sex, salary, salaries, wages, economy, economic, women's work, workplaces, USA, United States, US, feminism, feminists, occupations, occupational segregation, equal opportunities, equal rights, discrimination
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Moran, Michael.
The Politics of Industrial Relations: The Origins, Life and Death of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act
(Macmillan, rpt., 1980).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. ix + 195pp. Order No. NSBK-A9522
Keywords: 0333155033, trade unions, trade unionists, trade unionism, industrial relations, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, labour, labor, work, employment, employees, employers
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