Checkland, S. G.
The Rise of Industrial Society in England, 1815-1885:
(Longman, 5th impress., 1971).
Social and Economic History of England Series. General Editor, Asa Briggs. Paperback. Tear to front cover, otherwise good. xiv + 471pp. Order No. NSBK-A5681
Keywords: 0582482399, England, English, history, Britain, British, industrial, industry, society, Victorian, nineteenth century, Regency, labor, labour, working class, working classes, urban
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
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Thornton, William T.
Over-Population and its Remedy: an Inquiry into the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British Islands and into the Means of Remedying It
(Irish University Press, 1971 rpt of 1846 edition).
Hardback. Very good. xi + 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A5918
Keywords: 9780716517511, over-population, population, demography, demographic, labour, labor, laboring classes, labouring classes, laborers, labourers, Britain, British, England, English, history, poor, pauperism, poor laws, Malthus, Malthusian, Victorian, nineteenth century, economic, economic, resources, working classes
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Brown, Phillip and Scase, Richard, eds.
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour
(Open UP, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A14097
Keywords: 0335099408, labour, labor, division of labour, working classes, low-paid jobs, unskilled labour, low pay, working conditions, temporary work, part-time work, labour market, economy, employment
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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
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Hunter, L.C. and Robertson, D. J.
Economics of Wages and Labour:
(Macmillan, rpt., 1978).
Paperback. Sticker mark on back cover, spine creased, otherwise good+. 544pp. Order No. NSBK-A10381
Keywords: 0333105729, economics, economy, labour, wages, labor, income distribution, taxation, capital, technological change, unemployment, employment, work
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Feminist Review, ed, .
Waged Work: A Reader
(Virago, 1986).
Paperback. Back cover foxed, otherwise good. vi + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-A9136
Keywords: 0860688011, try to find under r for review, work, wages, waged work, labour, labor, employment, sex, sex discrimination, equal opportunities, trade unions, trade unionism, women's history, black women, homeworking, European Community, feminism, feminists, earning, gender, women's work, women and work
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Musson, A.E.
British Trade Unions, 1800 - 1875:
(Macmillan, rpt, 1979).
Studies in Economic and Social History Series. Paperback. Covers yellowed, ex library with minimal library markings, otherwise good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A7603
Keywords: 0333137019, trade unions, trade unionism, labour, labor, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, economic, economy
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Mackie, Lindsay and Pattullo, Polly.
Women at Work:
(Tavistock Studies, 1977).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+ with newspaper cuttings pasted inside. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C10190
Keywords: 0422759902, women, women's work, women workers, women and work, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th, labour, labor, domesticity, trade unions, housework, children, jobs, employment, equal pay
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Brewster, Margaret Maria.
Work, or Plenty to Do and How to Do It:
(T. Constable, 1953).
Paperback. Blue boards with bold lettering and illustration, soiled and worn, otherwise good. 117pp. Order No. NSBK-A13011
Keywords: 1428637338, twentieth century, work, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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