Field, June.
Creative Patchwork: An Introduction to Patchwork and Quilting.
(Pan Books, rpt., 1976).
Fully illustrated in colour and black and white. Paperback. Very good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-J11635
Keywords: 0330247956, patchwork, needlwork, sewing stitching, women's work, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £7.00.
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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
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Hiley, Michael.
Victorian Working Women: Portraits from Life
(Gordon Fraser, 1979).
Paperback. Covers browned, light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good. 140pp. Order No. NSBK-C4971
Keywords: 086092033X, woman, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, photos, photographs, art, pictures, women and work, working women, Arthur Munby, labour, labor, labouring, laboring, photographic, miners, pit brow lasses, portraits, industry, industrial, Michael Hiley, working class
Price £10.00.
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Davidson, Marilyn J. and Cooper, Cary, L., ed.
Working Women: An International Survey
(John Wiley and Sons, 1984).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good. x + 306pp. Order No. NSBK-C13181
Keywords: 0471904597, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, international, twentieth century, 20th, statistical
Price £20.00.
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Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
Price £12.00.
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
Price £25.99.
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Sklar, Kathryn Kish.
Florence Kelley & the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900
(Yale UP, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. xvi + 436pp. Order No. NSBK-C7994
Keywords: 0300059124, Florence Kelley, nation, politics, political culture, Victorian, nineteenth, 19th, century, United States, USA, American, America, Great Britain, British, gender, Progressivism, biography, biographical, biographies, lives, life history, life, life histories, Progressive Era, Cornell University, Jane Addams's Hull House
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National Research Council, .
Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment
(National Academy Press, 1986).
Volume 1. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14140
Keywords: 0309036887, work, women and work, employment, workers, computers, technology, labour, labor, female, clerical work, white collar, Louise A. Tilly
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Fawcett, Millicent G. and Turner, E. M.
Josephine Butler: her Work and Principles and their Meaning for the Twentieth Century
(Association Moral Social Hygiene, 2nd edition, 1928).
Hardback. Pages foxed. A little cracking internally at spine and wear to corners, otherwise good+. viii + 164pp. Order No. NSBK-A14427
Keywords: B000X8UXY2, Josephine Butler, philanthropy, prostitution, Victorian, morality, social purity, reform, Britain, British, England, English, history, prostitute, prostitutes, women, women's history, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, twentieth century, sexuality, gender, Liverpool, social history, philanthropists, Contagious Diseases Acts
Price £15.99.
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Reid, Marion.
A Plea for Woman: Being a Vindication of the Importance and Extent of her Natural Sphere of Action With Remarks on Recent Works on the Subject
(William Tait, Edinburgh, 1843).
Hardback. PLEASE NOTE: This is a photocopy only, in a scuffed, edge-worn library binding, with usual library stamps and markings. Otherwise good. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C14887
Keywords: B00088M4IK, Mrs Hugo Reid, Marion Reid, plea for woman, history, rights, women's rights, duties, domesticity, education
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