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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Szasz, Margaret Connell. ed.
Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker
(Oklahoma Press, 1994).
Hardback. Near fine. 386pp. Order No. NSBK-A12329
Keywords: 0806125950, Indian, India, Asia, Asian, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, ethnicity, race, cultural brokers
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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
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Porter, Susan L. ed.
Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
(Mass UP, 1996).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C8449
Keywords: 1558490051, women, woman, women's history, Commonwealth, American, USA, United States, family, children, social changes, nineteenth century, Victorian, womanhood, gender, ethnicity, race, class, jobs, employment, employees, employers, families, sisterhood, women's studies, Massachusetts, Boston, Bostonians
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Kushner, Tony.
Observing the "Other": Mass-Observation and "Race"
(Uni of Sussex, 1995).
Mass-Observation and "Race". Mass-Observation Archive, Occasional Paper No 2. Booklet. Paperback. New book, fine. 15pp. Order No. NSBK-A5119
Keywords: 0415064988, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, working classes, working class, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, World War II, Second World War, wartime, Occasional Papers, Tony Kushner, Jews, Judaism, Jewish, Jew, ethnicity, race, racism, racial, antisemitism, 1930s, inter-war, interwar, inter war, booklet
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Arnot, Madeleine, ed.
Race and Gender: Equal Opportunities Policies in Education. A Reader
(Pergamon, 1985).
Paperback. Good. 150pp. Order No. NSBK-C14109
Keywords: 0080326749, race, ethnicity, gender, racial, education, schools, equal opportunities, girls, boys, multiracial education, race relations, sex discrimination
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Thomas, Mary Martha.
The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920
(Alabama UP, 1992).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. viii + 269pp. Order No. NSBK-C6710
Keywords: 0817305645, Mary Martha Thomas, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, women's history, women's rights, rights of women, women and politics, suffrage, suffragists, suffragettes, The New Woman, gender, Sourthern lady, Southern belle, black women, white women, domesticity, child labour, child labor, Mary Martha Thomas, educational reform, temperance, clubs, organisations, associations, race, racism, America, USA, United States, public debate, American
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Roberts, Elizabeth.
Women and Families: an Oral History, 1940-1970
(Blackwell, 1995).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good. xi + 277pp. Order No. NSBK-C1563
Keywords: 9780631196136, women's history, oral history, women, North-West Regional Studies Centre, families, Lancaster, Barrow, Preston, Lancashire, social history, working class, domesticity, neighbourhood, community, Britain, British, England, English, history, family
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Reid, Marion.
A Plea for Woman: Being a Vindication of the Importance and Extent of her Natural Sphere of Action With Remarks on Recent Works on the Subject
(William Tait, Edinburgh, 1843).
Hardback. PLEASE NOTE: This is a photocopy only, in a scuffed, edge-worn library binding, with usual library stamps and markings. Otherwise good. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C14887
Keywords: B00088M4IK, Mrs Hugo Reid, Marion Reid, plea for woman, history, rights, women's rights, duties, domesticity, education
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Pennington, Shelley & Westover, Belinda.
A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850 - 1985
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in browned dustwrapper. xi + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C15640
Keywords: 9780333432969, homeworker, labour work, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, workforce, domestic, domesticity, working women, pennington, westover, sweated labour, housework, tailoring, tailor, tailoring industry, 19th century
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