Hill, Octavia.
Thirty Years' Work:
(Privately Printed).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow Workers were printed for private circulation to her supporters. She preferred to write to supporters individually, but by the 1870s the scope and scale of her work made this impossible. The importance of the Letters is that they cover the whole range of her activities: housing (including her work for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners), open spaces (including the founding of the National Trust), cultural philanthropy, the Women's University Settlement, the Poor Law Commission and the founding of the Cadets. Octavia disliked publicising her work, except in so far as she had to appeal for funds. The Letters therefore contain detailed information about way in which she handled the various aspects of her work that are not available elsewhere. The volume Thirty Years' Work is a bound collection of all of Octavia Hill's Letters to her Fellow Workers between 1872 (the first letter) and 1900. There are twenty-eight letters as one letter covers 1884 and 1885. All letters contain the accounts for the year apart from that for 1877. Also included in the volume are the two accounts of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment (1871 & 1872). Copies of the Letters are extremely rare and copies of the reports of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment even rarer. The letters take the form of simple paper pamphlets of between eight and twenty pages. A number of the letters are inscribed in Octavia's hand to her sister Gertrude who in 1875 had married Charles Lewes, the son of George Henry Lewes and stepson of George Eliot. Page size: 185mm x 120mm. Volume bound in attractive blue boards 190mm x 120mm. Further details and images available on request. Hardback. A small number of sheets - three or four - have become detached from the stitching. Internally, the spine is pulling away / partially detached - otherwise good, in blue boards. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15626
Keywords: social history, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's letters, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, pamphlets, booklets, Women's University Settlement, Cadets, Poor Law Commission, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, Gertrude Hill, Gertrude Lewes, inscribed, inscriptions, association items, antiquarian
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Marstrand, Pauline, ed.
New Technology and the Future of Work and Skills:
(Frances Pinter, 1984).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, otherwise good+. xvi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A14981
Keywords: 0861763882, technology, work, unemployment, automated systems, employment
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Lewenhak, Sheila.
Women and Work:
(Fontana, 1980).
Paperback. With a newspaper article pasted to inner front cover, spine faded, otherwise good. 286pp. Order No. NSBK-C1089
Keywords: 0006337600, women, women's studies, sociology, workers, women's work, women and work, women's history, industrialisation, industrialization, employment, employees, equality
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Beauchamp, Joan.
Women Who Work:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Good + in dustwrapper. 103pp. Order No. NSBK-C15509
Keywords: B00CPRYSZO,Britain, British, woman, women, female, feminism, feminists, women and work, women's history,twentieth century
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Pfeiffer, Mrs.
Women and Work: An Essay Treating on The Relation to Health and Physical Development of the Higher Education of Girls, and the Intellectual or More Systemised Effort of Women
(Trubner and Co, 1888).
Original. Paperback. Covers fairly heavily stained, flyleaf loose, otherwise a sound copy. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15327
Keywords: B00086FRF4, women, women and work, Victorian, nineteenth century, physical, health
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Kessler-Harris, Alice.
Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
(OUP, rpt., 1983).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, otherwise good. xvi + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-C7944
Keywords: 0195033531, women, woman, women's history, women and work, women's work, American, America, USA, United States, wages, money, economy, economic, nineteenth, twentieth, 19th, 20th, feminism, feminists, colonial, family, domesticity
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Beechey, Veronica and Perkins, Tessa.
A Matter of Hours: Women, Part-time Work and the Labour Market
(Polity Press, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper article pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good. vii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-C14159
Keywords: 0745602134, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women, women's work, labour, employment, jobs, job market, economy, manufacturing, part-time work, part-timers, employers, wages
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Tilly, Louise A.& Scott, Joan W.
Women, Work and Family:
(Routledge, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Covers soiled, a little wear to corners, otherwise good. 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C1249
Keywords: 0415902622, women, work, family, families, history, Joan W. Scott, Louise A. Tilly, economy, wage economy, living wage, economic conditions, France, French, Britain, British, England, English, industrialisation, industrialization, pre-industrial, Industrial Revolution, work, industry, women and work
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Westall, Oliver, ed.
Innovation and Labour During British Industrialisation: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Harry Dutton, 1947-1984
(Huntington Publishers, 1985).
Hardback. Covers rubbed, otherwise good+. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A11979
Keywords: 0906389097, Harry Dutton, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, twentieth century, 20th, patents, food riots
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Brewster, Margaret Maria.
Work, or Plenty to Do and How to Do It:
(T. Constable, 1953).
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Keywords: 1428637338, twentieth century, work, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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