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Hardback. This study examines the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the family and questions the extent to which ordinary working men and women shared the "Victorian values" of the middle-class. The book focuses on Bradford as its case study. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 353 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 34. Weight in Grams: 601.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333604793
- ISBN
- 9780333604793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.69
€ 128.69
Paperback. The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 401.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493999
- ISBN
- 9781349493999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.16
€ 127.16
Hardcover. The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438553
- ISBN
- 9781137438553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.09
€ 128.09
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253020888
- ISBN
- 9780253020888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21€ 11.76
€ 64.21
€ 11.76
paperback. Num Pages: 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1DVUAC; 1QDT; HBJD1; HBJF1; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253020932
- ISBN
- 9780253020932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 322 x 31. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1990th ed.
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252061448
- ISBN
- 9780252061448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. This text reinterprets the roots of 20th-century American labour law and politics, claiming that Republicans developed the fundamental principles, not New Deal Democrats. It demonstrates the establishment of procedural rights of workers in Republican-formulated labour legislation of the 1920s. Num Pages: 336 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPQB; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227637
- ISBN
- 9780807847374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Avram Taylor assesses the effect of credit on working-class communities and relates this to the debate about community. Based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, this book combines lively individual accounts with theoretical arguments. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFF; JFSC; KFFL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 407.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333962329
- ISBN
- 9780333962329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
paperback. This book offers a fresh look at Taiwan's state workers in from the postwar period to the present day and examines the rise and fall of labor insurgency in the past two decades. Challenging the conventional image of docile working class, it unearths a series of workers resistance, hidden and public, in a high authoritarian era. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; JFF; JHB; JHBL; JPA; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487462
- ISBN
- 9781349487462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
Hardback. Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the "working girl" heroines of western Canada's poetry, prose, and fiction. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814553
- ISBN
- 9780774814553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Paperback. Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the "working girl" heroines of western Canada's poetry, prose, and fiction. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814560
- ISBN
- 9780774814560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Hardcover. Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day. The labor history presented here includes consideration of the importance of women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II workers. Series: The American History Series. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118541401
- ISBN
- 9781118541401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.75
€ 103.75
Paperback. Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day. The labor history presented here includes consideration of the importance of women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II workers. Series: The American History Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118541494
- ISBN
- 9781118541494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.50
€ 37.50
Paperback. Socialist normality and the planned economy: "Working in East Germany" writes the people back into the history of East Germany. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349279999
- ISBN
- 9781349279999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Explores economic tendencies, political relationships and social situations that combined to create a specific socio-political habitat in East Germany after the building of the Berlin Wall. This book writes the people back into the history of East Germany. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001602
- ISBN
- 9780230001602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
paperback. Heron's examination of the impact of new technology in Canada's Second Industrial Revolution challenges the popular notion that mass-production workers lost all skill, power, and pride in the work process. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 223 pages, 16 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781442609846
- ISBN
- 9781442609846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, b/w photos & colour paintings. BIC Classification: 1MBN; AJC; HBJM; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 271 x 15. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877578519
- ISBN
- 9781877578519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.87
€ 30.99
€ 22.87
paperback. Challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas Series: Culture, Labor, History. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814763698
- ISBN
- 9780814763698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. This work is comprised of personal essays by some of the most noted Holocaust educators working in or with Holocaust museums, resource centers, or educational organizations across the globe. Editor(s): Totten, Samuel. Num Pages: 230 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD; HBTZ1; JNKC; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739105078
- ISBN
- 9780739105078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.60
€ 148.60
Paperback. In Working Toward Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JF; JKS; JPQB; LAZ; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487521301
- ISBN
- 9781487521301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Analyses the interrelationships between Cordoba's immigrant entrepreneurs, workforce, labour movement, gender relations, and culture on the one hand, and social revolution, modernization, and the Atlantic community on the other between the 1890s and the 1960s. Series: The Mexican Experience. Num Pages: 440 pages, 13 photographs, 2 maps, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 0th edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803243712
- ISBN
- 9780803243712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.64
€ 51.99
€ 46.64
Paperback. Based on local research, this work examines 19th-century education, family life and employment of working-class girls and women. It also draws on evidence from social, labour and women's history in an analysis of the purpose and practices of girls' education, both public and private. Editor(s): Campling, Jo. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ1; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333622018
- ISBN
- 9780333622018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardback. Based on local research, this work examines 19th-century education, family life and employment of working-class girls and women. It also draws on evidence from social, labour and women's history in an analysis of the purpose and practices of girls' education, both public and private. Editor(s): Campling, Jo. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ1; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333622001
- ISBN
- 9780333622001
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.40
€ 127.40
Hardcover. Taking a fresh look the history of northern working-class life in the second half of the twentieth century, this book turns to the concept of generation and generational change. The author explores Zygmunt Bauman's bold vision of modern historical change as the shift from solid modernity to liquid modernity. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348141
- ISBN
- 9780230348141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09