Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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Hunt, Audrey.
A Survey of Women's Employment: Vol I: Report
(HMSO, 1968).
Paperback. Spine edges and corners slightly rubbed, good. 257pp. Order No. NSBK-C15482
Keywords: B000IU1U2Y, social survey, government, politics, political, Britain, British, England, English, statistics, work, employment, women and work, women's work, employees, working women, non-working women, tywentieth century, post-war
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John, Angela.
By the Sweat of Their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coalmines
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, otherwise good+ in faded dustwrapper. 245pp. Order No. NSBK-D7113
Keywords: 9780856647482, work, Victorian England, women, coal mines, coal-mining, collieries, pits, labour, industry, pit brow lasses, history, Britain, British, England, English, women and work, women's work, women's history, coal, pit, working-class women, mine, mining, miner, coal pits, mining communities, coal pit
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Hijab, Nadia.
Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work
(CUP, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C4379
Keywords: 052126992X, Arab, Arabs, Arabian, women, Arab countries, Arab laws, Middle East, Middle Eastern, Arabian laws, Nadia Hijab, women and work, work, family, families, workforce, work force, status, Jordan, Jordanian, Arab Gulf, gender, Arab Gulf states, working women, Islam, Islamic, Moslem, Muslim
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Hewins, Angela.
Mary, After the Queen: Memories of a Working Girl
(OUP, 1985).
Foreword by Paul Thompson. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xv + 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C5402
Keywords: 0192122428, Queens, Queen Mary, royalty, monarchs, monarchs, Hewins, Stratford, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, memoirs, twentieth century, working class, working-class, women's history, Stratford upon Avon
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
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Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
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Drake, Barbara.
Women in Trade Unions:
(Virago, 1984 rpt of 1920 ed.).
Intro by Branson. With folding tables. Now out-of-print again. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. xiv + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-C393
Keywords: 0860684059, Virago, trade union, trade unions, trade unionism, labour, labor, labour history, labor history, Left, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, work, workers, working women, skilled labour, unskilled labour, TUC, Women's Trade Union League
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Paperback. Fine. iv + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4311
Keywords: 0718500598, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Hardback. Fine. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4312
Keywords: 071850058X, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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