Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
Price £16.95.
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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
(Macgibbon and Kee, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxxvi + 431pp. Order No. NSBK-A14555
Keywords: 0901740888, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, trade unionism, industrial democracy, industrialisation, working classes, trade disputes, wages, pay, Labour Party, shop stewards
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Mathias, Peter and Davis, John A. eds.
The First Industrial Revolutions:
(Basil Blackwell, rpt., 1990).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. viii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A8848
Keywords: 0631160396, industrial, Industrial Revolutions, technology, labour, labor, enterprise, agriculture, transport, agriculture, population
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Showler, Brian & Sinfield, Adrian, eds.
The Workless State: Studies in Unemployment
(Martin Robertson, 1981).
Foreword by Peter Townsend. Paperback. Spine creased, light soiling to edges, otherwise good. xvii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A6512
Keywords: 0855203404, unemployment, employment, work, labor, labour, twentieth century, poverty, men, politics, political economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, Keynes, government, society, tax, taxation, history
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Treble, J.H.
Urban Poverty in Britain, 1830 - 1914:
(Batsford Academic, 1979).
Hardback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6432
Keywords: 9780815398400, urban, poverty, Britain, British, towns, cities, town, city, poor, nineteenth century, twentieth century, industry, industrialisation, industrialization, low pay, casual labour, unemployment, sickness, widowhood, family, familes, economy, economics, history, England, English, paupers, pauper, pauperism
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Pinchbeck, Ivy.
Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750 - 1850:
(George Routledge, 1930).
Hardback. A little splitting / weakening internally at spine, edges slightly worn and cloth a little rubbed - otherwise a good copy. x + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-C9033
Keywords: B001P165SY, women workers, women and work, industry, industrialisation, Industrial Revolution, labour, working class, occupations, factories, mines, Ivy Pinchbeck, history, 18th century, eighteenth century, 19th century, nineteenth century, mining, hand loom weavers, domestic industries, trade, labor, labourers, textiles, women's history, factory, factories, economy, economic
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Petavel, J. W.
Administrative Efficiency and What it Might Give Us: Reduced Military Expenditure with Increased Army Reserves, and the Solution of the Problems of the Unemployed, of Rehousing, and of Technical Education
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1906).
The Towns of the Future and Self-Supporting Armies. Hardback. Pages browned and a little brittle with age. First page detached. Ex-library with usual lib stamps, in library binding. Good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-A13365
Keywords: B0006F9FZU, Edwardian, army, army reserves, militarism, military expenditure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unemployment, unemployed, rehousing, housing, technical education, administrative efficiency, conscription, social reform, houses, military, labour, land, towns, town planning
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Goodman, Arnold.
Tell Them I'm On My Way: Memoirs
(Chapmans, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library, well used/thumbed, but good in creased dustwrapper. xiii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A2745
Keywords: 1855926369, lawyer, Fleet Street, Harold Wilson, politics, Labour Party, Barbara Castle, British Steel, Arnold Goodman, Britain, British, England, English, history
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James, Leighton S.
The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890 - 1926
(Manchester UP, 2008).
Critical Labour Movement Studies. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A14753
Keywords: 9780719074974, Critical Labour Movement Studies, Ruhr, miners, mining, South Wales, Welsh, coal mining, coal-mining, colleries, pits, coalfields, trade unions, labour movements, identity, history, Germany, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, German, coal industry, World War I, Great War
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Wigham, Eric L.
Trade Unions:
(OUP, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A5148
Keywords: 0198880413, trade unions, trade unionism, labor, labour, employment, work, state, Britain, British, England, English, history, workers' rights, workers, employers, employees, Victorian, twentieth century, politics, nineteenth century
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