Snowden, Philip.
The Living Wage:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1912).
Hardback. Bright red boards slightly blotched / soiled at back, otherwise very good. xvi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13340
Keywords: B00085I7GG, Philip Snowden, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, living wage, wages, economy, politics, living wage, poverty, cost of living, industry, employment, strikes, conciliation, labour, twentieth century, before the first world war, economics
Price £18.00.
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Phillips, Janet and Peter.
Victorians at Home and Away:
(Croom Helm, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8407
Keywords: 0856646881, Victorians, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, 19th, Crystal Palace, Christian Soldiers, music, queens, royalty, monarchs, Queen Victoria, businessmen, professionals, shopkeepers, manners, fashions, women, the poor, poverty, soldiers, soccer, racing, cricket, public schools, missionary, missionaries
Price £8.00.
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Stringer, Peter and Robinson, Gillian, eds.
Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: First Report, 1990-1991
(The Blackstaff Press, 1991).
Paperback. One corner of front cover slightly bent, otherwise very good. viii + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A10367
Keywords: 0856404772, Northern Ireland, Irish, social attitudes, society, sociology, Britain, British, British Social Attitudes survey, classes, twentieth century, 20th, national identity, law and order, discrimination, role of women, poverty, morality, AIDS
Price £11.99.
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Burn, James Dawson.
The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy:
(Europa Publications, 1978).
Edited by David Vincent. Hardback. Good in slightly creased / torn / browned dustwrapper. v + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-A2992
Keywords: 090511826X, poverty, nineteenth-century, working-class autobiographies, autobiography, beggars, trade unionism, radicalism, Oddfellows movement, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £10.00.
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Simon, E.D.
The Anti-Slum Campaign:
(Longmans, 2nd Impression, 1933).
Very scarce. Hardback. Cloth sun faded and worn at edges, internally good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A4069
Keywords: B000KYQ3D4, Manchester, slums, anti-slum campaign, housing, cities, urban history, North West, England, English, Britain, British, Addison Act, rents, Greenwood Act, town planning, urbanisation, conurbation, dwellings, houses, building, city, local government, local authorities, Chamberlain Act, Wheatley Act, Hilton Young Acts, slum clearance, housing shortage, tenants, Homes for Heroes, Simons, E.D. Simon, Ernest Simon, poverty, poor
Price £12.00.
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 1
(Caliban Books, 1980).
Paperback. Spine a little browned. A few light marks to card covers, otherwise very good. 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A13114
Keywords: 0904573206, Victorian, 1840s, forties, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, cholera, Bermondsey, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, workhouses, diet, clothes, poor law, employment, London
Price £19.95.
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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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Eden, Frederic Morton.
The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the Present Period
(Thoemmes Continuum, 2001 facsimile edition of 1797 edition).
PLEASE NOTE: TWO VOLUMES ONLY OF THREE (Vol I and Vol II). Hardbacks. Very good condition. Set sadly lacks vol 3. xxxi + 632; viii + 692pp. Order No. NSBK-A13850
Keywords: 1855062623, poverty, poor, poor relief, friendly societies, friendly society, labouring classes, working classes, pauperism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Frederic Morton Eden, parochial reports, diet, dress, habitation, domestic economy, philanthropy, poor houses, workhouses, 18th century, eighteenth century
Price £72.00.
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Vickers, Jeanne.
Women and the World of Economic Crisis:
(Zed Books, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 146pp. Order No. NSBK-A6991
Keywords: 0862329752, economics, economy, development, gender, women, woman, women's history, women, global, international, economic crisis, twentieth century, 20th, Ghana, Jamaica, Jamaican, Mexico, Mexican, Philiipines, Zambia, Zambian, African, Africa, United Nations, unemployment, health, child, children, food, nutrition, hunger, poverty
Price £4.00.
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Manton, Jo.
Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets:
(Heinemann, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly yellowed dustwrapper creased at edges. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C13437
Keywords: 9780435325695, children, childhood, Mary Carpenter, streets, poverty, poor, crime, criminals, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, beggars, begging, prisons, Bristol, India
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