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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Reay, Barry.
Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England
(Reaktion Books Limited, 2002).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-H13042
Keywords: 1861891199. Hannah Cullwick, Arthur Munby, servants, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, body, bodies, working class, working classes, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
Price £15.00.
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Hunt, E. H..
British Labour History, 1815-1914:
(Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1981).
Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise good. xii + 428pp. Order No. NSBK-A3942
Keywords: 0297777866, Britain, British, England, English, history, labour, work, employment, workforce, wages, working week, trade union, trade unionism, working class, working-class, class, Labour Party, women, Irish immigration
Price £9.00.
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
Price £7.00.
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Allen, Sheila and Wolkowitz, Carol.
Homeworking: Myths and Realities
(Macmillan, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. x + 225pp. Order No. NSBK-A8666
Keywords: 033342364X, homeworking, women workers, domestic economy, hidden workforce, gender, casual labour, labor, twentieth century, women and work, sociology
Price £5.50.
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West Yorkshire Homeworking Group, .
A Penny A Bag: Campaigning on Homework
(Yorkshire and Humberside Low Pay Unit, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. 139pp. Order No. NSBK-C15499
Keywords: 1870288076, England, English, Britain, British, history, homework, women, piecework, women's history, Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
Price £14.00.
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Feminist Review, ed, .
Waged Work: A Reader
(Virago, 1986).
Paperback. Back cover foxed, otherwise good. vi + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-A9136
Keywords: 0860688011, try to find under r for review, work, wages, waged work, labour, labor, employment, sex, sex discrimination, equal opportunities, trade unions, trade unionism, women's history, black women, homeworking, European Community, feminism, feminists, earning, gender, women's work, women and work
Price £3.00.
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Cambridge Women's Studies Group, .
Women in Society:
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. Some pencil markings to title page and in a few places in text, sticker mark and creasing to paper covers, otherwise good. 313pp. Order No. NSBK-C6427
Keywords: 0860680835, feminists, feminist, feminism, sociology, Cambridge Women's Studies Group, England, English, Britain, British, feminist theory, family, state, work, sexuality, families, motherhood, sexual difference, Ludmilla Jordanova, Denise Riley
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Women's Studies International Forum, .
Women's Studies International Forum:
(Pergamon/Elsevier, 2003-5).
7 issues. Vol 24 (2001) No 6; Vol 26 (2003) No 5; Vol 27 (2004) Nos 4 and 5-6; Vol 28 (2005) Nos 1, 4 and 5. Journals. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11419
Keywords: Women's Studies International Forum, journal, journals
Price £18.00.
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Working Man's Friend Periodical, .
The Working Man's Friend and Family Instructor:
(John Cassell).
14 unbound pamphlets / issues. Weeks ending: March 16th 1850; July 13th 1850; July 20th 1850; July 27th 1850; October 5th 1850; October 26th 1850; January 4th 1851; February 15th 1851; February 22nd 1851; March 1st 1851; March 8th 1851; March 15th 1851; March 22nd 1851; March 29th 1851. Disbound pamphlets. Darkened / browned with natural ageing, some soiling, otherwise good. Unbound issues of the magazine. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13130
Keywords: class, Britain, British, England, English, working class, working classes, magazines, magazine, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, working men, literacy, knowledge, periodicals, working class consciousness, Exhibition of 1851, pamphlets
Price £24.00.
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