Department of Employment, .
Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work: 1st April 1971
(HMSO, 1971).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some creasing to front cover, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A14182
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Thomis, Malcolm I.
The Town Labourer and the Industrial Revolution:
(B.T. Batsford, 1974).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A5486
Keywords: 0713428333, town labourers, Industrial Revolution, social history, Britain, British, England, English, workers, work, industry, urban, urbanisation, towns, factory, factories, trade unions, trade unionism, trade union, collectives, combinations, Combination Laws, factory system, handloom weavers
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Robertson, John M.
The Eight Hours Question:
(Swan Sonnenschein, 2nd edition, 1899).
Hardback. Red boards darkened / soiled, spine ends and corners worn, ex library with usual library markings - otherwise a good solid copy. xii + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A14441
Keywords: B00087AGQ8, working hours, pay, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, working conditions, economy, industry, eight hours, factory, factories, mines, railways, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, reform
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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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Robertson, Emma.
Chocolate, Women and Empire: a Social and Cultural History
(MUP, 2009).
Hardback. Some scattered pen annotation, not affecting legibility, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 249pp. Order No. NSBK-C15297
Keywords: 9780719077777, Rowntrees, chocolate, history, factories, York, women workers, women and work, Empire, imperialism, confectionery, global economy, Nigeria, cocoa farms, gender, chocolate making
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Anon, .
A Survey of the History, Commerce and Manufactures of Lancashire: Together With Extracts, Reproduced by Request, From "The Home Trade of Manchester" and a Biographical Sketch of Reuben Spencer
(Biographical Publishing, 1897).
Including Jubilee Demonstrations. Hardback. Lacks front endpaper, slight cracking internally at spine, corners rubbed, but overall very good. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A5186
Keywords: B000HBZ0H0, Lancashire, North West, England, English, Britain, British, trade, nineteenth century, Jubilee, Victorian, history, commerce, industry, industrial, manufactures, manufacturing, textile, textiles, cotton, factory, factories, factory system, Manchester Ship Canal, Manchester, Reuben Spencer, commercial, economy, economic
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Hammond, J. L and Hammond, Barbara.
Lord Shaftesbury:
(Constable and Co, 1923).
In the series Makers of the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Basil Williams. Hardback. Cloth faded/worn/marked, otherwise a good working copy. `x + 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A6007
Keywords: B0006AJFC8, Lord Shaftesbury, politics, Victorian, nineteenth century, biographies, biographical, biography, men, life histories, life history, lunacy, mental health, philanthropy, Peel, mines, mine reform, mining, factories, industry, industrialisation, Ten Hours Bill, public health, Anton Ashley Cooper, Ashley, Earl of Shaftesbury
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Murphy, Teresa Anne.
Ten Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England
(Cornell UP, 1992).
Hardback. Good in dustwrapper. xii + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C4052
Keywords: 0801426839, gender, religion, religious, reform, United States, America, American, New England, USA, history, work, labor, labour, women, men, workers, employers, mill towns, Boston, Fall River, factories, factory
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Bruley, Sue, ed.
Working for Victory: A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory
(History Press, 2010).
Paperback. Very good+. xxv + 226pp. Order No. NSBK-C15189
Keywords: 9780752456492, second world war, factory, factories, industry, women workers, employment
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Aspin, Chris.
Mr Pilling's Short Cut to China and Other Stories of Rossendale Enterprise:
(Helmshore Local History Society, 1983).
Paperback. Some fading to cover dye, otherwise good+. iv + 100pp. Order No. NSBK-A7116
Keywords: 0906881021, Pilling's, China, Rossendale, nineteenth century, 19th, Bacup, Rochdale, industry, industrial, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, factories, factory, mills, bags, Charter, Chartists, Mr Pilling, the Whitworth Pioneers, China, Chinese, trade, Helmshore, businessman, businessmen, cotton spinners, spinning, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, Lancashire
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