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
Price £7.00.
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Vicinus, Martha.
Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920
(Chicago UP, 1985).
Hardback. Light edgewear to dustwrapper, otherwise good+. xv + 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C7557
Keywords: 0226855678, women's work, single women, spinster, community, work, Britain, British, England, English, history, jobs, career, communities, spinsterhood, careers
Price £14.99.
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes.
The Labour Party Today: What it is, and How it Works
(Labour Book Service, 1939).
Scarce. With a section on women. Hardback. Some foxing, otherwise very good. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A1948
Keywords: B000LE439Y, Mary Agnes Hamilton, Hamilton, trade union, Labour party, party politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, trade unionism, women and work , women's work, labor, labour, trade unions
Price £5.00.
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Westwood, Sallie.
All Day Every Day: Factory and Family in the Making of Women's Lives
(Pluto Press, 1984).
Paperback. Cover soiled and bent, otherwise good. viii + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-C12713
Keywords: 0861047605, ethnicity, work, labour, factory, factories, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, family, children, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, feminism, feminists, shopfloor, Asians, Indians, hosiery, Needletown
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Fabian Women's Group, .
Summary of Six Papers and Discussions Upon the Disabilities of Women As Workers:
(Fabian Women's Group, 1909).
Booklet. Paperback. Some brown staining to page edges, otherwise good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A15041
Keywords: B001OJDUAI, booklets, booklet, women and work, disability, disabilities, workers, female, Edwardian, Emma Brooke, Constance Long, Millicent Murby
Price £13.00.
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Sandford, Mrs Henry.
Home Work and Duties:
(W. & R. Chambers, 1885).
Girls' Reading-Book. Hardback. Some wear to edges & fraying to spine ends. Red / black cloth with gilt lettering slightly darkened, otherwise a good copy. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C13123
Keywords: Victorian, 1880s, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, duties, responsibilities, duty, responsibility, social history, women's history, Mrs Henry Sandford, women's education, girls, girlhood, domestic economy, food, clothing, sewing, needlework, knitting, ventilation, cleaning, washing, health, sickness, Britain, British, England, English, hygiene,
Price £25.00.
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Horsfield, Margaret.
Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
(Fourth Estate, 1998).
Paperback. Fading to spine, light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C6189
Keywords: 1857026756, domestic, domesticity, women and work, women's work, woman, women's history, housewives, housewife, housewifery, homemaking, homemaker, houses, home, household, chores, housemaids, Mrs Beeton, cleanliness, cleaning, Hannah Cullwick, Cleanliness Institute, cleaners, flappers, dusting
Price £4.00.
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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
Price £24.00.
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Herzog, Marianne.
From Hand to Mouth: Women and Piecework
(Penguin, rpt., 1980).
Paperback. Good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-C4791
Keywords: 0140220895, women, women and work, history, women's history, German, Germany, Europe, European, West Germany, Philips, Siemens, piecework, wages, unemployment, employment, jobs, factory work, industry, industries, industrial, labor, labour, labor market, labour market. twentieth century
Price £3.00.
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Summerfield, Penny.
Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict
(Croom Helm, 1984).
Classic work of women's history, now very scarce. Hardback. Ex library but good+ in faded, slightly creased dustwrapper. ix + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-C1783
Keywords: 0709923171, Second World War, World War II, munitions, women's work, patriarchy, factory, history, Britain, British, England, English
Price £47.95.
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