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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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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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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Synge, Lanto.
Antique Needlework:
(Blandford Press, 1982).
A charming history of decorative needlework. Hardback. Light soiling to front endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 202pp. Order No. NSBK-F4498
Keywords: 0713710071, needlework, sewing, needlewoman, stitching, sewers, needleworkers, crafts, costumes, decorations, embroidery, antiques, Early modern, Mediaeval, Medieval, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth century, nineteenth century, costumes, heraldry, furniture, collectors, history, decorative needlework, history of needlework, lanto synge, craft work
Price £18.00.
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Daniel, Cletus.
Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941
(Cornell UP, 1981).
Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good+ in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 348pp. Order No. NSBK-A12536
Keywords: 0801412846, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Californian, California, work, workers
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Redclift, Nanneke and Sinclair, M. Thea.
Working Women: International Perspectives on Labour and Gender Ideology
(Routledge, 1991).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. x + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-A14563
Keywords: 0415018439, women and work, working women, labour, workforce, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, gender, employment, mining, trade unions, factories
Price £9.99.
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Neff, Wanda F.
Victorian Working Women: an Historical and Literary Study of Women in British Industries and Professions, 1832-1850
(George Allen, 1929).
Hardback. Spine faded, light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-C4538
Keywords: B000GR10JW, women and work, work, woman, women, history, industry, industrial, Industrial Revolution, working, factory, factories, Britain, British, England, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, textiles, textile, mills, cotton, governess, governesses, professions, professional, dressmaker, dressmakers, frame-knitters, knitting, labour, labor, economic
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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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Joyce, Patrick.
Work, Society & Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England
(Rutgers UP, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light scuffing to back cover, otherwise very good+. xxv + 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A9036
Keywords: 081351083X, factory, factories, nineteenth century, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, social history, society, politics, class, paternalism, deference, labour, labor, 19th century, industry, factory system, Patrick Joyce, community, communities
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Thomas, Clara.
Love and Work Enough: the Life of Anna Jameson
(Macdonald, 1967).
Hardback. Very good in chipped, torn and soiled dustwrapper. xii + 252pp. Order No. NSBK-C1153
Keywords: B0000CNLM7, Anna Jameson, Jameson, woman writer, women writers, biography, teacher, governess, Victorian, nineteenth century, biographies, Fanny Kemble
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