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Royal Commission on Equal Pay, .
Royal Commission on Equal Pay: 1944 - 46 Report
(HMSO, 1946). Important source material on the gender division of labour in the 1940s. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some damage to binding at spine ends, (front cover detached by 2 inches at top), otherwise good. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A7688
Keywords: equal pay, pay, employment, Royal Commission on Equal Pay, reports, gender, gender division of labour, labour, history, labor, industry, industries, women, men, workers, teaching, public service, local government, employees, wages, economy, economic, professions, law, period sources, jobs, occupations, booklet
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HMSO, .
Suggestions for the Guidance of the Clergy: Relative to the Duties Imposed Upon Them By the Marriage and Registration Acts
(HMSO, 1901). Booklet. Spine damaged to reveal binding, boards darkened, embossed, decorated boards with gilt lettering, a good working copy only. 33pp. Order No. NSBK-A5101
Keywords: B000HC0T7U, stored with booklets, marriage, social history, marriages, weddings, wedding, Britain, British, England, English, Edwardian, Victorian, marriage ceremonies, marriage rites, marriage rituals, registration, registrars, clergy, religion, religious, banns, licence, baptism, civil registration, burial, burials, registering, registering birth, marriage and death, law, legal, booklet
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914). Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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Perry, Matt.
Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1931-45 (Studies in Labour History)
(Ashgate, 2007). Hardback. Very good. xiv + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A15276
Keywords: 9780754656074, employment, labour, unemployment, France, French, history, poor, protest, Lille to Paris Hunger March, unemployed, interwar
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Meriam, Adele Stuart.
The Stepfather in the Family:
(Chicago UP, 1940). A Social Service Monograph of the University of Chicago. The approach is both sociological and legalistic. Meriam looks at judicial decisions and "sets out the logic and arguments on which those decisions have been based.She brings out clearly the strange dilemma created because of the position of the courts in accordance with the principle that by marriage the stepfather undertakes no obligations to the children of an earlier marriage, as over and against the logic of the older view that when he married a woman a husband took his wife with all of her liabilities." The problem of the stepfather; the stepfather as a stranger; the in loco parentis relationship; liability to support; right of stepfather to his stepchild's earnings; inheritance; right to punish; etc. Paperback. Ex library, covers yellowed, otherwise good+. x + 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A2346
Keywords: B000HBYPWQ, stepfather, step-parent, fatherhood, parenting, law, legal, America, American, American history, USA, United States, family
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Pearson, R.A.
The Guardian Book of the Welfare State:
(Wildwood House, 1988). Hardback. Very good in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A7656
Keywords: 0704530848, 20th, twentieth century, welfare state, social history, social welfare, poor, poverty, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, debates, housing, education, health, social security, health, post-war, post war
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Cage, R. A. ed.
The Working Class in Glasgow, 1750 - 1914:
(Croom Helm, 1987). Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 203pp. Order No. NSBK-A15275
Keywords: 9780709934158, Glasgow, poor, working classes, Scotland, Scottish, history, social history, Victorian, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Edwardian, housing, poverty, public health
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Forbes, Robert.
Sixty Years of Medical Defence:
(Medical Defence Union, 1948). Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, wear to boards and damage to spine & fly leaf, but a good solid working copy. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A6579
Keywords: B0000CJA05, medical claims, medical defence, history, health, social history, law, legal, 1940s, post war, post-war, Medical Defence Union, medicine, doctors, Britain, British, England, English, prosecutions, legal action
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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
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Borowitz, Albert.
The Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case:
(Robson Books, 1st UK edition, 1988). Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xiii + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-A1865
Keywords: 0860514838, Thurtell-Hunt, murder, crime, history of crime, law and order, Britain, British, England, English, history
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