Russell, Alice.
The TUC and the Working Time Question: Policy, Action and Outcomes in Twentieth Century Britain
(Book Guild, 2000).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xx + 298pp. Order No. NSBK-A14204
Keywords: 1857765753, trade unionism, trade unions, TUC, Trade Union Congress, working hours, holidays, pay, wages, work, labour, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Symes, R. A.
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries:
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A15528
Keywords: 9781473862944, social history, geneaology, family trees, women, men, Empire, birth certificates, geneaology, marriage, death, mortality, fertility, diaries, passenger lists, labour, censuses, emigration, family relationships
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Hobbs, Margaret and Sangster Joan.
The Woman Worker, 1926-1929:
(Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999).
Paperback. Near fine. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A12324
Keywords: 1894000013, Canada, Canadian, labour history, labor history, work, worker, employees, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Webb, Catherine, ed.
Industrial Co-operation: the Story of a Peaceful Revolution
(Co-op Union Ltd, 8th edition, 1919).
Hardback. Edges worn, otherwise good. xxii + 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A4063
Keywords: B000HBVYJS, cooperation, co-operation, history, industry, industrial, Catherine Webb, co-operative movement, Britain, British, England, English, labour, Robert Owen, Rochdale Pioneers, co-operatives, wholesale, production, cooperation
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Pesotta, Rose.
Bread Upon the Waters:
(Dodd, Mead and Company, 1944).
Edited by John Nicholas Beffel. Hardback. Red cloth boards soiled, otherwise good in heavily torn dustwrapper. x + 435pp. Order No. NSBK-C13271
Keywords: B000KTOH1E, Rose Pesotta, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's work, employment, workers, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. labor, labour
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Glyn, Andrew and Miliband, David, eds.
Paying For Inequality: The Economic Cost of Social Injustice
(IPPR/Rivers Oram Press, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xiii +248pp. Order No. NSBK-A15502
Keywords: 185489059X, economics, economic, inequality, poverty, poor, Labour, politics, Britain, British, history, twentieth century
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Dawley, Alan.
Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn
(Harvard University Press, rpt., 1979).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly soiled covers. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C7793
Keywords: 0674133951, Lynn, American, America, United States, USA, shoes, shoemakers, footwear, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, labor, labour, work, employers, employees, workers, owners, factories, nineteenth-century, nineteenth, 19th, property, income, economics, economy, history, social, Industrial Revolution, entrepreneurs, artisans, factory, poor, militants, politicians, equal rights, factory system
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Neff, Wanda F.
Victorian Working Women: an Historical and Literary Study of Women in British Industries and Professions, 1832-1850
(George Allen, 1929).
Hardback. Spine faded, light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-C4538
Keywords: B000GR10JW, women and work, work, woman, women, history, industry, industrial, Industrial Revolution, working, factory, factories, Britain, British, England, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, textiles, textile, mills, cotton, governess, governesses, professions, professional, dressmaker, dressmakers, frame-knitters, knitting, labour, labor, economic
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
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Hareven, Tamara K. and Langenbach, Randolph.
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City in New England
(Methuen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A3210
Keywords: 0416721605, city, industrial, Amoskeag, America, American, American history, labour history, labor history, Amoskeag, United States, USA manufacturing company, textile, Merrimack, New Hampshire, factory, immigration, oral history
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