Pennington, Shelley & Westover, Belinda.
A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850 - 1985
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in browned dustwrapper. xi + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C15640
Keywords: 9780333432969, homeworker, labour work, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, workforce, domestic, domesticity, working women, pennington, westover, sweated labour, housework, tailoring, tailor, tailoring industry, 19th century
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Birch, Lionel, ed.
The History of the T.U.C., 1868-1968: a Pictorial Survey of a Social Revolution
(General Council TUC, 1968).
Paperback. Large format. Spine creased & covers slightly yellowed, overall very good. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-A2482
Keywords: B0000CO80S, trade union, labour history, class, revolution, British history, class, work, TUC,Britain, British, England, English, history
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Hudson, Pat.
The Industrial Revolution:
(Edward Arnold, 1992).
Paperback. Good. xi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C8170
Keywords: 9780713165319, industry, industrial, industrial revolution, social history, economy, economic, labour, labor, Pat Hudson, technology, demography, commerce, consumption, class, work
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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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Bieler, Andreas.
The Struggle for a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Critical Labour Movement Studies. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A14634
Keywords: 9780719072529, Critical Labour Movement Studies, Europe, European, trade unions, trade unionism, history, EMU, global restructuring, labour, Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, industrial relations
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Petavel, J. W.
Administrative Efficiency and What it Might Give Us: Reduced Military Expenditure with Increased Army Reserves, and the Solution of the Problems of the Unemployed, of Rehousing, and of Technical Education
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1906).
The Towns of the Future and Self-Supporting Armies. Hardback. Pages browned and a little brittle with age. First page detached. Ex-library with usual lib stamps, in library binding. Good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-A13365
Keywords: B0006F9FZU, Edwardian, army, army reserves, militarism, military expenditure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unemployment, unemployed, rehousing, housing, technical education, administrative efficiency, conscription, social reform, houses, military, labour, land, towns, town planning
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Selley, Ernest.
Village Trade Unions in Two Centuries:
(George Allen & Unwin, 1919).
Paperback. Covers darkened / soiled with some wear to edges, otherwise a good working copy. 183pp. Order No. NSBK-A8667
Keywords: B00085LYAW, villages, rural, village, trade unions, trade unionism, associations, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, 20th century, twentieth century, organisation, Britain, British, England, English, labouring classes, labour, labor, class, rural labourers, laborers, agriculture, agricultural, wages, wage, minimum wage, Joseph Arch
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Hobbs, Margaret and Sangster Joan.
The Woman Worker, 1926-1929:
(Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999).
Paperback. Near fine. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A12324
Keywords: 1894000013, Canada, Canadian, labour history, labor history, work, worker, employees, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Berg, Maxine, ed.
Technology and Toil in Nineteenth Century Britain: Documents
(CSE Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-A4939
Keywords: 0906336031, Britain, British, history, England, English, toil, labour, labor, work, nineteenth century,m Victorian, industry, pin money, weaving, factory, factories, textiles, steel making, steam engines, lead foundries, shipbuilding, boot and shoe trade, workshop, industrialisation, industrialization, coal, saw mills, machines, working class, working classes, working-class
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Brown, David.
Blip: A Personal History of Huntingdon Town Council 1995-1999
(David Brown, Huntingdon, 1999).
Paperback. Fine. xv + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A14343
Keywords: 0953776204, town councils, town council, Huntingdon, history, local politics, local government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Labour, Cambridgeshire
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