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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Sambrook, Pamela.
Laundry Bygones:
(Shire, 1983).
Paperback. Vert good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15500
Keywords: 0852636482, laundry, washing, clothes, women's work, women, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £3.00.
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
Price £7.00.
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
Price £24.00.
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Bradley, Harriet.
Men's Work: Women's Work:
(Polity Press, 1989).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, light staining to page edges, otherwise good +. vii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C9413
Keywords: 0745601626, women, work, women's work, women and work, men's work, industry, sexual division of labour, labour, labor, gender, inequality, equality, agriculture, nursing, shopwork, hosiery, job segregation, Industrial Revolution, nineteenth century, twentieth century, eighteenth cnetury
Price £9.50.
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Rhodes, Mary.
Ideas for Canvas Work:
(Jarrold and Sons, 1970).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, board edges rubbed, otherwise good in worn dw. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-G13087
Keywords: 0713426349, canvas work, crafts, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £12.00.
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Holbrook-Jones, Mike.
Supremacy and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement
(Heinemann Educational, 1982).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8640
Keywords: 0435824171, class, classes, class structure, heirarchy, social, society, working-class, working-class, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, jobs, labour, labor, miners, coal, spinners, engineers, men, man, Maxist, Marxism, industrial revolution, labour history, labor history, Britain, British, England, English, history, sociology, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists
Price £10.00.
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Holcombe, Lee.
Victorian Ladies at Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850 - 1914
(David and Charles, 1973).
Hardback. Minor pencil annotation and with newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise good+ in chipped / faded / rubbed dustwrapper. x + 253pp. Order No. NSBK-C10502
Keywords: 9780715364116, women and work, women's history, working women, feminism, Victorian, middle class, Britain, England, British, English, history, Wales, Welsh
Price £16.00.
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Vicinus, Martha.
Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920
(Chicago UP, 1985).
Hardback. Light edgewear to dustwrapper, otherwise good+. xv + 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C7557
Keywords: 0226855678, women's work, single women, spinster, community, work, Britain, British, England, English, history, jobs, career, communities, spinsterhood, careers
Price £14.99.
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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
Keywords: 0113603738, wages, hours, work, time rates, employment, 1970s, seventies, manufacturing, industry, economy, textiles, factories, factory, engineering, social history, pay
Price £11.95.
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