Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
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Lockwood, Helen Drusilla.
Tools and the Man: A Comparative Study of the French Workingman and English Chartists in the Literature of 1830-1848
(AMS Press, 1966).
Hardback. Cloth slightly rubbed, otherwise good. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A6133
Keywords: B0007DWRK6, England, English, French, French, British, Britain, Europe, European, history, workingman, working class, working-class, Chartists, radicals, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, Chartism, Chartist Movement, working classes
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Swindells, Julia.
Victorian Writing and Working Women: the Other Side of Silence
(Polity Press, 1985).
Paperback. Good+. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4041
Keywords: 0745600727, Victorian, nineteenth century, writing, women, work, women writers, gender, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, novels, autobiography, autobiographies, literature
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Shaw, Jenny.
Intellectual Property, Representative Experience and Mass-Observation:
(Uni Sussex, 1998).
Booklet. Good. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-A5235
Keywords: 0850870402, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, working classes, working class, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, Occasional Papers, group experience, Jenny Shaw, groups, booklet
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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Flanders, Allan.
Trade Unions:
(Hutchinson, rpt, 1967).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A3775
Keywords: 0090455614, trade unionism, trade unions, labour, industry, England, English, Britain, British, Trade Union Congress, collective bargaining, wages, employment, working conditions, class
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Riemer, Eleanor S. & Fout, John C., eds.
European Women: a Documentary History, 1789-1945
(Harvester, 1983).
Social documents written by women, organised in 4 sections: women & work; women's politics; women & the family; woman & her body. Scarce. PB. Spine faded and creased, otherwise good. xxi + 258pp. Order No. NSBK-C2294
Keywords: 0710804792, women's history, europeans, european, europe, document, documents, resources, resource, women in work, work, women, employment, working women, working woman, politics, political, marriage, matrimony, sexuality, contraception, gender, abortion, abortionists, motherhood, working class, working classes
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Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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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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