Horsfield, Margaret.
Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
(Fourth Estate, 1998).
Paperback. Fading to spine, light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C6189
Keywords: 1857026756, domestic, domesticity, women and work, women's work, woman, women's history, housewives, housewife, housewifery, homemaking, homemaker, houses, home, household, chores, housemaids, Mrs Beeton, cleanliness, cleaning, Hannah Cullwick, Cleanliness Institute, cleaners, flappers, dusting
Price £4.00.
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
Price £7.00.
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Wootton, Graham.
Workers, Unions and the State:
(RKP, 1966).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. xi + 173 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A7961
Keywords: 0710034792, workers, trade unions, trade unionists, the State, politics, trade unionism, employees, employers, work, laboor, labor, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, factories, factory, civic
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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
Price £7.00.
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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
Price £12.00.
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Herzog, Marianne.
From Hand to Mouth: Women and Piecework
(Penguin, rpt., 1980).
Paperback. Good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-C4791
Keywords: 0140220895, women, women and work, history, women's history, German, Germany, Europe, European, West Germany, Philips, Siemens, piecework, wages, unemployment, employment, jobs, factory work, industry, industries, industrial, labor, labour, labor market, labour market. twentieth century
Price £3.00.
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Allen, Sheila and Wolkowitz, Carol.
Homeworking: Myths and Realities
(Macmillan, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. x + 225pp. Order No. NSBK-A8666
Keywords: 033342364X, homeworking, women workers, domestic economy, hidden workforce, gender, casual labour, labor, twentieth century, women and work, sociology
Price £5.50.
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Work, Thomas S. & Elizabeth.
The Basis of Chemotherapy:
(Oliver & Boyd, 1948).
Hardback. Corners rubbed, otherwise very good. xx + 435pp. Order No. NSBK-A2770
Keywords: B0007E5YXW, medicine, chemotherapy, Ehrlich, cancer, drugs, illness, sickness, health, history
Price £7.00.
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Griffiths, Gareth.
Women's Factory Work in World War I:
(Alan Sutton, 1991).
With previously unknown photographs from the Home Office Industrial Museum. Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to rear endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C665
Keywords: 9780862997953, women's history, factory, factories, munitions, Great War, World War I, First World War, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £8.99.
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Ross, James.
The Power I Pledge: Being a Centenary Study of the Life of William Quarrier and the Work he Pioneered
(Robert MacLehose, 1971).
Hardback. Very good. 118pp. Order No. NSBK-A5303
Keywords: 0950203408, William Quarrier, Glasgow, children, child, philanthropy, Scotland, Scottish, Scotch, Scots, Homelea, history, nineteenth century, Victorian, Quarrier's homes
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