Mayhew, Henry.
Mayhew's Characters:
(Spring Books, 1967).
Edited with a note on the English character by Peter Quennell. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper which is rather torn and tatty at edges. xix + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A5010
Keywords: B0000CNF5P, Henry Mayhew, nineteenth century, Victorian, povery, poor, London, oral history, Britain, British, England, english, interviews, people, popular, working-class, working class, work, labor, labour, mayhew's characters, mayhew's, mayhew, characters
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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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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
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Heinemann, Margot.
Wages Front:
(Lawrence & Wishart, 1947).
Hardback. Very good in foxed, browned & slightly chipped dustwrapper. xii + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A5507
Keywords: B0006ARPZ2, Margot Heinemann, post war, post-war, postwar, Labour Research Department, economy, economic, history, wages, earnings, wage, income, Britain, British, England, English, wage-earners, labour, labor, minimum wage, skilled, unskilled, cost of living, low wages, economic recovery, reconstruction
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Davies, A. J.
To Build a New Jerusalem: The Labour Movement from the 1880s to the 1990s
(Michael Joseph, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. vi + 344pp. Order No. NSBK-A8529
Keywords: 0718133943, labour labor, politics, political, Labour Party, Britain, British, England, English, history, organisations, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, socialism, socialists
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Pond, Chris.
Trouble in Store: A Study of Shopwork and Low Pay
(Low Pay Unit, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good. 57pp. Order No. NSBK-A11170
Keywords: B000HC5H36, low pay, economy, economics, wages, work, labor, labour, employees, money, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, shopwork, shops, pay, clothing shops, Cambridge, minimum wages, overtime, stores
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Lewenhak, Sheila.
Women and Trade Unions: an Outline History of Women in the British Trade Union Movement
(Ernest Benn, 1977).
Hardback. WIth newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good in spine-faded dustwrapper. xi + 308pp. Order No. NSBK-C1982
Keywords: 051000007X, trade union, trade unions, trade unionism, labour, labor, labour history, labor history, Left, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, work, workers, working women, skilled labour, unskilled labour, TUC, Women's Trade Union League
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Macdougall, Ian, ed.
Labour in Scotland: A Pictorial History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
(Mainstream Publishing, 1985).
Beautifully illustrated in colour and black and white. Paperback. Very good+. 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A12466
Keywords: 0906391652, eighteenth, 18th, Scotland, Scottish, Scots, labour, labor, work, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, employees, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work
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Barros, Mauricio Rands.
Labour Relations and the New Unionism in Contemporary Brazil:
(Macmillan, 1999).
St Antony's Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xx + 321pp. Order No. NSBK-A14061
Keywords: 0333736168, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, Brasilian, history, labour relations, new unionism, trade unionism, labour movement, citizenship, industrial relations, labor, unions, collective bargaining
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Brown, Phillip and Scase, Richard, eds.
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour
(Open UP, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A14097
Keywords: 0335099408, labour, labor, division of labour, working classes, low-paid jobs, unskilled labour, low pay, working conditions, temporary work, part-time work, labour market, economy, employment
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