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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Kingston-upon-Hull City Council, .
Silvered Wings: A Commemorative Brochure
(Kingston-upon-Hull CC, 1980).
The story of Amy Johnson. Produced for the Amy Johnson Festival, Kingston-Upon-Hull, 3rd - 24th May 1980. Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C9692
Keywords: B000HC6XGQ, Amy Johnson, aircraft, aeroplanes, aviators, women, woman, history, Britain, British, England, English, wings, biographical, biographies, biography, lives, life, gender, women's work, Hull, twentieth century, 20th, planes, aviation
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Leadbeater, Eliza.
Handspinning:
(Studio Vista, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C9765
Keywords: 0289705983, handspinning, spinning, spinning wheels, industry, women's work, woman, history, women's history, women and work, domestic industry
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Clay, Trevor.
Nurses: Power and Politics
(Heinemann Nursing, rpt., 1987).
In association with Alison Dunn and Neil Stewart. Foreword by Virginia Henderson. Paperback. Spine sun faded, otherwise very good. vii + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C6638
Keywords: 0433060050, nurses, nursing, medicine, health, medical, hospitals, Health Service, NHS, National Health Service, patients, students, women's work, women and work, Britain, British, England, English
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The Labour Party, .
Discrimination Against Women: Report of a Labour Party Study Group
(The Labour Party, 1972).
Opposition Green Paper. Paperback. Covers browned, otherwise good. 45pp. Order No. NSBK-C10598
Keywords: 0900507306, women, woman, women's history, women's movement, feminism, women's studies, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, government, opposition, green paper, discrimination, equal rights, equal pay, Labour party, socialism, twentieth century, education, work, industrial training, employment, pay, social services, social security, taxation, law
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Silverstone, Rosalie and Ward, Audrey, eds.
Careers of Professional Women:
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C9343
Keywords: 0856649236, women and work, women's work, careers, professional, women's studies, history, training, education, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, 20th
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Pesotta, Rose.
Bread Upon the Waters:
(Dodd, Mead and Company, 1944).
Edited by John Nicholas Beffel. Hardback. Red cloth boards soiled, otherwise good in heavily torn dustwrapper. x + 435pp. Order No. NSBK-C13271
Keywords: B000KTOH1E, Rose Pesotta, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's work, employment, workers, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. labor, labour
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Stuart, Dorothy Margaret.
The English Abigail:
(Macmillan, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with minor marks left by stickers, edges worn, otherwise good. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C3359
Keywords: B0007IW8V0, abigail, domestic service, servant, women adn work, women's work, literature, novel, fiction
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Alan Sutton, 1985).
Paperback. Creases to back cover, otherwise good. xii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A13483
Keywords: 0862991579, women, woman, gender, 1920s, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Ogden, Annegret S. Ogden.
The Great American Housewife: From helpmate to wage earner, 1776-1986
(Greenwood Press, 1986).
Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper, with some pencil annotation on opening pages. xxiiii + 255pp. Order No. NSBK-C15514
Keywords: 0313247528, American, America, United States, US, United States of America, housewife, housewives, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, women's work, women and work
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