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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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
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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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Labour History Journal, .
North West Labour History Journal: No 27: The North in the '70s
(North West Labour History Group, 2002).
Journal. Good. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A10722
Keywords: 13626302, North West, Northern, North, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 1970s, nineteen seventies
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Heinemann, Margot, Labour Research Department.
Britain's Coal: A Study of the Mining Crisis
(Victor Gollancz, 1944).
Foreword by Will Lawther. Hardback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. 195pp. Order No. NSBK-A13478
Keywords: B0006AQV84, coal, coal mining, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, history, miners, colliers, crisis, 1940s, nationalisation, wages, health, safety, dangers, accidents, mines, labour, monopoly, management
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Peace, Helen F.
The Pretended Family: A Study of Domestic Labour in Lesbian Families
(Leicester UP, June 1993).
Discussion Papers in Sociology, NoS93/3. Paperback. Covers slightly creased, otherwise good+. 45pp. Order No. NSBK-C11406
Keywords: women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, lesbians, lesbianism, sexuality, homosexuality, family, families, domestic labour, housework, roles, sociology, sociologists
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Spencer, Herbert.
Tumours Complicating Pregnancy, Labour and the Puerperium: Being The Lettsomian Lectures Delivered Before The Medical Society Of London, February and March 1920
(Harrison and Sons, 1920).
Very scarce. Hardback. Ex-library (St Bartholomew's Hospital College Library). Edges worn, otherwise a good copy. 78pp. Order No. NSBK-A13637
Keywords: B00126A1M8, Lettsomian Lectures, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, medicine, medical, women, women's history, pregnancy, maternity, pregnant, having a baby, health, tumours, cysts, cancer, growth, babies, motherhood, mothers, labour, London, 1920s, twenties, twentieth century, puerperium, cervix, cervical cancer, Caesarean section, antiquarian
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Gray, Robert Q.
The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh:
(Clarendon Press, 1976).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in faded dustwrapper. ix + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A9278
Keywords: 0198224427, labour, labor, aristocracy, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, Scotland, Scottish, Scotch, Britain, British, working class, working-class
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Pahl, R. E.
Divisions of Labour:
(Basil Blackwell, 1984).
Paperback. Near fine. 362pp. Order No. NSBK-C7834
Keywords: 0631132740, Britain, British, England, English, history, inome, money, gender, labor, labour, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, Industrial Revolution, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 18th, 19th, sociology, sociologial, households, families, family, neighbourhoods, neighborhoods, class, status, communities, community, work, employment, jobs
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes.
The Labour Party Today: What it is, and How it Works
(Labour Book Service, 1939).
Scarce. With a section on women. Hardback. Some foxing, otherwise very good. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A1948
Keywords: B000LE439Y, Mary Agnes Hamilton, Hamilton, trade union, Labour party, party politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, trade unionism, women and work , women's work, labor, labour, trade unions
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