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
Price £8.00.
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Sambrook, Pamela.
Laundry Bygones:
(Shire, 1983).
Paperback. Vert good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15500
Keywords: 0852636482, laundry, washing, clothes, women's work, women, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £3.00.
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
Price £7.00.
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
Price £24.00.
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Mappen, Ellen.
Helping Women at Work: The Women's Industrial Council, 1889-1914
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 134pp. Order No. NSBK-C1218
Keywords: 0091594715, Britain, British, England, English, history, Edwardian, women's work, women and work, The Women's Industrial Council, women's history, women
Price £3.99.
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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
Price £10.00.
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Marstrand, Pauline, ed.
New Technology and the Future of Work and Skills:
(Frances Pinter, 1984).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, otherwise good+. xvi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A14981
Keywords: 0861763882, technology, work, unemployment, automated systems, employment
Price £18.00.
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Game, Ann and Pringle, Rosemary.
Gender at Work:
(Pluto Press, 1984).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise good condition. 147pp. Order No. NSBK-C15853
Keywords: 9780861046713, shed, gender, work, sociology, women and work, manufacturing, retailing, hospitals
Price £13.99.
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Wharncliffe, Lord, James, ed.
The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:
(Richard Bentley, second edition, revised, 1837).
Volume I only of three. Hardback. Nicely bound in leather - bright and firm. Gilt bands, titles and decoration to spine. Gilt edging, marble-effect page edges. A little scuffing / marking to leather. Else very good. lxiv + 402pp. Order No. NSBK-C16067
Keywords: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Bute, eighteenth century, 18th, history, letters, works, correspondence, literature, women writers, Lord Wharncliffe, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Turkish, inoculation, smallpox, vaccines, vaccine, antiquarian section under W
Price £40.00.
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West, Jackie, ed.
Work, Women and the Labour Market:
(RKP, 1982).
Paperback. Spine soiled, otherwise good. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-C795
Keywords: 0710009704, work, women, labour market, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, employment, women's work, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
Price £4.00.
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