Hammond, J.L. & Hammond, Barbara.
The Town Labourer:
(Longman, 1978).
Paperback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good. xlvii + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A7559
Keywords: 0582480817, Hammond, urban labourers, town, work, industry, employment, poor, poverty, unemployment, urbanisation, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history, town, towns, work, Britain, British, England, English, Hammonds, poor, factories, factory, factory system, power looms, industrial revolution, workers, class, working class, working classes, child labour, labour, labor, Lord Shaftesbury, trade unions, economic history, economy
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Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, ed.
Woman's Mission: a Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women by Eminent Writers
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile of 1893 ed).
For the Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893. Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, spine slightly creased, otherwise very good. viii + 485pp. Order No. NSBK-C4894
Keywords: 9781378684542, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropy, philanthropic, women, woman, women's history, woman's, woman's mission, women and work, Britain, British, England, English, poor, poverty, Victorian, nineteenth century, societies, temperance, organisations, friendly societies, friendly society, Florence Nightingale, sisterhood, charity, charities, Sarah Ponsonby, working class, working classes, needlework, poor laws, ragged schools, education, welfare, social welfare, social history, women's work, missions, women workers, rescue work, Portrayers, Portrayer Publishers, philanthropic institutions, Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893, victoriana, Portrayer's, women's work, woman worker, woman workers
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Kaufman, M.
The Housing of the Working Classes and of the Poor:
(EP Publishing/Rowman and Littlefield, 1975 rpt of 1907 text).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 146pp. Order No. NSBK-A2577
Keywords: 0715811347, housing, working classes, history, poor, poverty, Britain, England, urban, urbanisation, British, English, houses, paupers
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Vickers, Jeanne.
Women and the World of Economic Crisis:
(Zed Books, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 146pp. Order No. NSBK-A6991
Keywords: 0862329752, economics, economy, development, gender, women, woman, women's history, women, global, international, economic crisis, twentieth century, 20th, Ghana, Jamaica, Jamaican, Mexico, Mexican, Philiipines, Zambia, Zambian, African, Africa, United Nations, unemployment, health, child, children, food, nutrition, hunger, poverty
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Pearson, R.A.
The Guardian Book of the Welfare State:
(Wildwood House, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A7656
Keywords: 0704530848, 20th, twentieth century, welfare state, social history, social welfare, poor, poverty, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, debates, housing, education, health, social security, health, post-war, post war
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Loane, M.
The Queen's Poor: Life As They Find it in Town in Country
(Middlesex UP, 1998).
Introduction by Susan Cohen and Clive Fleay. Paperback. Slightly soiled, otherwise good. liii + 312pp. Order No. NSBK-A12701
Keywords: 1898253226, The Queen's Poor, poor, poverty, M. Loane, social investigations, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, towns, country, nurses, nursing. The Queen's Poor, working class, working-class, Martha Jane Loane
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Carpenter, Mary.
Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders
(Woburn Press, Augustus M. Kelley, new impression, 1969).
A re-issue of the 1851 text. Hardback. Very good in spine-faded, lightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-C13605
Keywords: B0010Y287S, crime, reformatory schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, childhood, education, children, schooling, Mary Carpenter, juvenile offenders, poverty, destitution, social history, free day schools, ragged schools, gaols, prisons
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Blair, Anna, ed.
Miss Cranston's Omnibus: Recollections of Glasgow Life
(Lomond Books, 1991).
Illustrated by Bill Taylor. Includes Tea at Miss Cranston's and More Tea at Miss Cranston's. Paperback. Good. xiv + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-C3170
Keywords: 0947782443, Miss Cranston, omnibus, Glasgow, Scotland, social history, oral history, poverty
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Leffingwell, Albert.
Illegitimacy and the Influence of Seasons Upon Conduct: Two Studies in Demography
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1892).
With maps and diagrams. Scarce. Hardback. Original red cloth darkened / soiled / stained, some wear to spine ends & corners, one map partly detached - otherwise good. viii + 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C10974
Keywords: B000HBZSGI, illegitimacy, illegitimate, mothers, single mothers, motherhood, demography, population, demographic, morals, morality, moral, women, women's history, 1890s, Victorian, 19th century, seasons, regions, regional, unmarried women, bastardy, poverty, infants, infancy, babies, birth, childbirth, chastity, birth rate, birth-rates, fertility, mortality, birth rates, birthrates, insanity, madness, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, pregnancy, expectant mothers, antiquarian
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Poor Law Commissioners, .
Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners: on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture, 1843
(Frank Cass, 1968 impression of 1843 text).
Hardback. Some pencil annotation mainly to endpapers, front endpaper has small piece cut-out, otherwise good+, a solid copy. 378pp. Order No. NSBK-C15750
Keywords: 9780714622149, poor law, poverty, reports, commissioners, women, children, history, agriculture, agricultural, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, work, employment
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