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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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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Aspin, Chris.
Mr Pilling's Short Cut to China and Other Stories of Rossendale Enterprise:
(Helmshore Local History Society, 1983).
Paperback. Some fading to cover dye, otherwise good+. iv + 100pp. Order No. NSBK-A7116
Keywords: 0906881021, Pilling's, China, Rossendale, nineteenth century, 19th, Bacup, Rochdale, industry, industrial, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, factories, factory, mills, bags, Charter, Chartists, Mr Pilling, the Whitworth Pioneers, China, Chinese, trade, Helmshore, businessman, businessmen, cotton spinners, spinning, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, Lancashire
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Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, .
Education and Training for the Cotton and Rayon Industry: Papers and Dicussions at a Conference in Manchester in September 1946 Organized by the Cotton Board With the Collaboration of the British Rayon Federation, the Textile Institute and the Textile Teachers' Association
(Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, 1946).
A series of essays from different contributors. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly browned, edge worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7704
Keywords: post war, post-war industry, cotton, textiles, rayon, training, industries, textile, Britain, British, England, English, Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Department, industrial training, production, technical colleges, teach, teachers, teaching, technical education, history
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Perry, P.J.
British Agriculture 1875-1914:
(Methuen and Co, 1973).
Debates in Economic History. Paperback. Very good+. xliv + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-A10089
Keywords: 416759505, history, Britain, British, England, English, agriculture, agricultural, countryside, country, rural, farms, farming, landowners, farmers, industry, industrial, food, cereal, pastoral, economy, economics
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Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, .
Excursion to Scarborough: Friday July 24th, 1914
(Bass Museum, reprint, 1977).
A charming booklet. On the very eve of the First World War, this detailed guide prepares Bass employees and their families for their day excursion to Scarborough by train. Illustrated. Booklet. Fine. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-A6872
Keywords: B000IZA06Q, Scarborough, seaside, holidays, outings, Britain, British, England, English, Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, towns, spa towns, working classes, working class, excursions, working class excursions, leisure, entertainment, recreation, train journeys, trains, railways, days out, day out, days-out, day-out, tramways, amusements, Bass, industrial workers, Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, Ratcliff, Gretton, stations, twentieth century, World War I, Great War, First World War, pre-war, Bass Museum, Bass outings, booklet
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Clark, Peter, ed.
The Early Modern Town: A Reader
(Longman & Open UP, 1976).
Paperback. Covers yellowed, a little creasing to spine, otherwise good. 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A5313
Keywords: 0582484057,Early Modern, town, towns, planning, urban, pre-industrial, English, England, Britain, British, history, economics, economy, London, Norwich, Sheffield
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Nixon, Edna.
Mary Wollstonecraft: her Life and Times
(J.M. Dent, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. xii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-C2069
Keywords: 046003975X, women writers, women's politics, Godwin, Vindication, women's rights, French Revolution, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman writer, feminism, feminists, feminist
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Supple, Barry, ed.
Essays in British Business History:
(Clarendon, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, a little discolouration to covers, otherwise a good copy. viii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A5554
Keywords: 019877088X, business, business history, Britain, British, England, English, businesses, economy, economic, entrepreneurs, Barry Supple, manufacturing, industry, industrial, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, industries, technology
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Allen, G.C.
Japan's Economic Expansion:
(OUP, rpt., 1969).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xi + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A11957
Keywords: 0192149318, Japan, Japanese, Far East, Asian, Asia, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, twentieth century, 20th, industrial, industries, demography, demographic, population, fisheries, fishery, textiles
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