Marsh, E. L.
Laundry Work: In Theory and Practice
(Longmans, Green & Co, 1914).
With illustrations. Hardback. External condition poor, spine cover flapping loose, cloth worn/marked/blotched, a working copy. xiii + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-A11180
Keywords: B000877ELI, laundry, laundry work, launderesses, women's work, women and work, domestic, domesticity, washing, ironing, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, cleaning, mangling, cotton, linen
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Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, ed.
Woman's Mission: a Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women by Eminent Writers
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile of 1893 ed).
For the Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893. Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, spine slightly creased, otherwise very good. viii + 485pp. Order No. NSBK-C4894
Keywords: 9781378684542, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropy, philanthropic, women, woman, women's history, woman's, woman's mission, women and work, Britain, British, England, English, poor, poverty, Victorian, nineteenth century, societies, temperance, organisations, friendly societies, friendly society, Florence Nightingale, sisterhood, charity, charities, Sarah Ponsonby, working class, working classes, needlework, poor laws, ragged schools, education, welfare, social welfare, social history, women's work, missions, women workers, rescue work, Portrayers, Portrayer Publishers, philanthropic institutions, Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893, victoriana, Portrayer's, women's work, woman worker, woman workers
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Peterson, M. Jeanne.
Family, Love and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen:
(Indiana UP, 1989).
Paperback. Spine browned, with a newspaper review pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. xii + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-C4229
Keywords: 0253205093, family, love, work, Victorian, women, gentlewomen, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, upper-middle-classes, class, private sphere, public sphere, separate spheres, leisure, leisured classes, home, domesticity, gender, wife, wives, M. Jeanne Peterson, marriage, marriages, wedlock
Price £12.50.
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Wise, Nancy Baker and Wise, Christy.
A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II
(Jossey-Bass, 1994).
Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xvii + 283pp. Order No. NSBK-C12409
Keywords: 1555427030, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, work, workers, labour, labor
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Sangster, Joan.
Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada
(Toronto UP, 2010).
Paperback. Very good+. x + 414pp. Order No. NSBK-A15111
Keywords: 9780802096524, Canada, Canadian, working women, women, history, postwar, after the war, labour, employment, women's work
Price £17.50.
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Elizabeth, Charlotte.
The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth: Passing Thoughts; Falsehood and Truth
(Baker & Scribner, 1846).
The works "Passing Thoughts" & "Falsehood and Truth" only, by Charlotte Elizabeth (Tonna). Very scarce. Contains (mysteriously) one extraneous page - from "Conformity", another of Elizabeth's works which is not included. Hardback. Small, with pieces missing from the gilt-decorated spine, corners worn, some light foxing, otherwise good, tight. 105; x + 137pp. Order No. NSBK-C5103
Keywords: B0008B8N6Y, Charlotte Elizabeth, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, history, women writers, woman, women's literature, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, religion, religious, works, writings, purity, sentiment, morality, female
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Holbrook-Jones, Mike.
Supremacy and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement
(Heinemann Educational, 1982).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8640
Keywords: 0435824171, class, classes, class structure, heirarchy, social, society, working-class, working-class, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, jobs, labour, labor, miners, coal, spinners, engineers, men, man, Maxist, Marxism, industrial revolution, labour history, labor history, Britain, British, England, English, history, sociology, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists
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Beechey, Veronica and Perkins, Tessa.
A Matter of Hours: Women, Part-time Work and the Labour Market
(Polity Press, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper article pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good. vii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-C14159
Keywords: 0745602134, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women, women's work, labour, employment, jobs, job market, economy, manufacturing, part-time work, part-timers, employers, wages
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Lewenhak, Sheila.
Women and Work:
(Fontana, 1980).
Paperback. With a newspaper article pasted to inner front cover, spine faded, otherwise good. 286pp. Order No. NSBK-C1089
Keywords: 0006337600, women, women's studies, sociology, workers, women's work, women and work, women's history, industrialisation, industrialization, employment, employees, equality
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Black, Clementina ed.
Married Women's Work: Being the Report of an Enquiry Undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council
(G. Bell, 1915).
Hardback. Original red cloth slightly faded and edgeworn, otherwise very good. vi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C15617
Keywords: married women, work, industry, Women's Industrial Council, wages, employment, working conditions, family, poverty, Clementina Black, suffragists, suffragist, suffrage, Votes for Women, suffragettes, Britain, England, English, Britain, economic, social history, antiquarian
Price £15.00.
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