Harrison, J.F.C.
A History of the Working Men's College, 1854-1954:
(RKP, 1954).
Hardback. A little soiling to cloth, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+. xix + 215pp. Order No. NSBK-A4091
Keywords: B0000CIYZB, Working Men's College, education, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, class, George Tansley, adult education, mature students, WEA, Working Men's Association, clubs, Britain, British, England, English, working classes, working class, class, higher education, illiteracy, illiterate, literate, literacy, working men's colleges
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Lockwood, Helen Drusilla.
Tools and the Man: A Comparative Study of the French Workingman and English Chartists in the Literature of 1830-1848
(AMS Press, 1966).
Hardback. Cloth slightly rubbed, otherwise good. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A6133
Keywords: B0007DWRK6, England, English, French, French, British, Britain, Europe, European, history, workingman, working class, working-class, Chartists, radicals, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, Chartism, Chartist Movement, working classes
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
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Swindells, Julia.
Victorian Writing and Working Women: the Other Side of Silence
(Polity Press, 1985).
Paperback. Good+. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4041
Keywords: 0745600727, Victorian, nineteenth century, writing, women, work, women writers, gender, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, novels, autobiography, autobiographies, literature
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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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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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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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Riemer, Eleanor S. & Fout, John C., eds.
European Women: a Documentary History, 1789-1945
(Harvester, 1983).
Social documents written by women, organised in 4 sections: women & work; women's politics; women & the family; woman & her body. Scarce. PB. Spine faded and creased, otherwise good. xxi + 258pp. Order No. NSBK-C2294
Keywords: 0710804792, women's history, europeans, european, europe, document, documents, resources, resource, women in work, work, women, employment, working women, working woman, politics, political, marriage, matrimony, sexuality, contraception, gender, abortion, abortionists, motherhood, working class, working classes
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Cooper, Thomas.
The Life of Thomas Cooper:
(Leicester UP, 1971).
With an introduction by John Saville. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A8323
Keywords: 0718550161, Thomas Cooper, autobiography, autobiographical, autobiographies, lives, life histories, life history, memoir, working, man, Chartists, Chartism, nineteenth century, 19th, Leicester, Leicestershire, working class, working-class, classes, Victorian, political, politics, John Saville
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Berg, Maxine, ed.
Technology and Toil in Nineteenth Century Britain: Documents
(CSE Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-A4939
Keywords: 0906336031, Britain, British, history, England, English, toil, labour, labor, work, nineteenth century,m Victorian, industry, pin money, weaving, factory, factories, textiles, steel making, steam engines, lead foundries, shipbuilding, boot and shoe trade, workshop, industrialisation, industrialization, coal, saw mills, machines, working class, working classes, working-class
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