Jones, Stephen G.
Workers at Play: a Social and Economic History of Leisure, 1918 - 1939
(RKP, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. viii + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A4346
Keywords: 0710206356, leisure, recreations, recreation, social history, interwar, inter war, inter-war, hobbies, sport, gambling, boxing, men, women, economic, holidays, drinking, pub, pubs, public houses, popular culture, cinema, working class, working classes, pastimes, voluntary organisations, clubs, working men's clubs, labour, entertainment, Britain, British, England, English
Price £6.00.
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Pretty, David A.
The Rural Revolt that Failed: Farm Workers' Trade Unions in Wales, 1889-1950
(Cardiff UP, 1989).
Hardback. Fine. 291pp. Order No. NSBK-A11037
Keywords: 0708310249, Britain, British, history, United Kingdom, UK, Wales, Welsh, Welshmen, Welshman, farms, farming, farmers, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth, 20th, Labour Movement, rural, countryside, country
Price £14.00.
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
Votes for Workers:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image is printed in vibrant colours and is taken from a suffragette poster, created by W.F. Winter, and originally produced by the Artists' Suffrage League (date unknown). Image (in shades of brown, cream and sand) shows weary and dejected British working woman at a sewing machine, with the slogan "Votes for Workers" beneath it. Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14486
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, Artists' Suffrage League
Price £9.99.
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Brooke, David.
The Railway Navvy: That Despicable Race of Men
(David and Charles, 1983).
Hardback. Very good in slightly browned dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A13480
Keywords: 071538449X, trains, railways, history, railway workers, railway navvy, navvies, railwaymen, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, construction workers, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Balaklava Railway, Crimea, Crimean War, railway building, locomotives
Price £17.50.
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James, Louis.
Fiction for the Working Man, 1830 - 50: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
(Penguin, rpt, 1974).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xviii + 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A8755
Keywords: 014060037X, fiction, class, working class, working classes, nineteenth century, 19th century, workers, working men, social history, class consciousness, reading habits, reading matter, Britain, British, England, English, popular literature, Victorian, popular fiction, publishing, popular culture, history, urbanisation
Price £8.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
Price £30.00.
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Lewenhak, Sheila.
Women and Work:
(Fontana, 1980).
Paperback. With a newspaper article pasted to inner front cover, spine faded, otherwise good. 286pp. Order No. NSBK-C1089
Keywords: 0006337600, women, women's studies, sociology, workers, women's work, women and work, women's history, industrialisation, industrialization, employment, employees, equality
Price £4.00.
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Seabrook, Jeremy.
Unemployment:
(Quartet Books, 1982).
Hardback. Page edges soiled, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A9899
Keywords: 0704323257, unemployment, employment, work, workers, employers, employees, twentieth century, Jeremy Seabrook, eighties, redundancy
Price £5.00.
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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
Price £10.00.
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Hammond, J.L. & Hammond, Barbara.
The Town Labourer:
(Longman, 1978).
Paperback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good. xlvii + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A7559
Keywords: 0582480817, Hammond, urban labourers, town, work, industry, employment, poor, poverty, unemployment, urbanisation, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history, town, towns, work, Britain, British, England, English, Hammonds, poor, factories, factory, factory system, power looms, industrial revolution, workers, class, working class, working classes, child labour, labour, labor, Lord Shaftesbury, trade unions, economic history, economy
Price £6.00.
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