Hamilton, Mary Agnes.
The Labour Party Today: What it is, and How it Works
(Labour Book Service, 1939).
Scarce. With a section on women. Hardback. Some foxing, otherwise very good. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A1948
Keywords: B000LE439Y, Mary Agnes Hamilton, Hamilton, trade union, Labour party, party politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, trade unionism, women and work , women's work, labor, labour, trade unions
Price £5.00.
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Marsh, E. L.
Laundry Work: In Theory and Practice
(Longmans, Green & Co, 1914).
With illustrations. Hardback. External condition poor, spine cover flapping loose, cloth worn/marked/blotched, a working copy. xiii + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-A11180
Keywords: B000877ELI, laundry, laundry work, launderesses, women's work, women and work, domestic, domesticity, washing, ironing, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, cleaning, mangling, cotton, linen
Price £8.00.
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Wise, Nancy Baker and Wise, Christy.
A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II
(Jossey-Bass, 1994).
Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xvii + 283pp. Order No. NSBK-C12409
Keywords: 1555427030, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, work, workers, labour, labor
Price £9.00.
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Hardback. Very good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C14460
Keywords: 071904460X, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
Price £20.00.
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Fabian Women's Group, .
Summary of Six Papers and Discussions Upon the Disabilities of Women As Workers:
(Fabian Women's Group, 1909).
Booklet. Paperback. Some brown staining to page edges, otherwise good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A15041
Keywords: B001OJDUAI, booklets, booklet, women and work, disability, disabilities, workers, female, Edwardian, Emma Brooke, Constance Long, Millicent Murby
Price £13.00.
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Davidson, Marilyn J. and Cooper, Cary, L., ed.
Working Women: An International Survey
(John Wiley and Sons, 1984).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good. x + 306pp. Order No. NSBK-C13181
Keywords: 0471904597, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, international, twentieth century, 20th, statistical
Price £20.00.
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Sandford, Mrs Henry.
Home Work and Duties:
(W. & R. Chambers, 1885).
Girls' Reading-Book. Hardback. Some wear to edges & fraying to spine ends. Red / black cloth with gilt lettering slightly darkened, otherwise a good copy. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C13123
Keywords: Victorian, 1880s, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, duties, responsibilities, duty, responsibility, social history, women's history, Mrs Henry Sandford, women's education, girls, girlhood, domestic economy, food, clothing, sewing, needlework, knitting, ventilation, cleaning, washing, health, sickness, Britain, British, England, English, hygiene,
Price £25.00.
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
Price £14.00.
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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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Summerfield, Penny.
Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict
(Croom Helm, 1984).
Classic work of women's history, now very scarce. Hardback. Ex library but good+ in faded, slightly creased dustwrapper. ix + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-C1783
Keywords: 0709923171, Second World War, World War II, munitions, women's work, patriarchy, factory, history, Britain, British, England, English
Price £47.95.
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