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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Barros, Mauricio Rands.
Labour Relations and the New Unionism in Contemporary Brazil:
(Macmillan, 1999).
St Antony's Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xx + 321pp. Order No. NSBK-A14061
Keywords: 0333736168, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, Brasilian, history, labour relations, new unionism, trade unionism, labour movement, citizenship, industrial relations, labor, unions, collective bargaining
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Neff, Wanda F.
Victorian Working Women: an Historical and Literary Study of Women in British Industries and Professions, 1832-1850
(George Allen, 1929).
Hardback. Spine faded, light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-C4538
Keywords: B000GR10JW, women and work, work, woman, women, history, industry, industrial, Industrial Revolution, working, factory, factories, Britain, British, England, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, textiles, textile, mills, cotton, governess, governesses, professions, professional, dressmaker, dressmakers, frame-knitters, knitting, labour, labor, economic
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Payne, P. L.
British Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century:
(Macmillan, 1974).
Studies in Economic History. Paperback. Soiling to covers, ink annotations, a good working copy only. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A9143
Keywords: 333116461, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, 19th, history, Victorian, economics, economy, entrepreneurs, industrial revolution, industry, business, commerce
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Burton, Anthony.
Remains of a Revolution:
(Cardinal, 1975).
Photographs by Clive Coote. Paperback. Covers slightly creased, otherwise very good. 255pp. Order No. NSBK-A3172
Keywords: 0351154418, Industrial Revolution, archaeology, industrial archaeology, photographs, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, machine, technology, factory, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Derry, T. K. and Jarman, T. L.
Modern Britain: Life and Work through Two Centuries of Change
(Cox and Wyman, 1979).
Paperback. Very good. 390pp. Order No. NSBK-A9773
Keywords: 0719535468, modern Britain, British, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, Victorian, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization
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Supple, Barry E., ed.
The Experience of Economic Growth: Case Studies in Economic History
(Random House, 1963).
A Random House Book. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good in torn dustwrapper. x + 458pp. Order No. NSBK-A13141
Keywords: 0198203578, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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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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Hodson, Patricia M., ed.
The Manchester Ship Canal: a Guide to Historical Sources
(Lancashire Bibliography, 1985).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good. xi + 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A5212
Keywords: 0902217143, Manchester, regional studies, Manchester Ship Canal, North West, industrial, industry, social history, canals, navigation, man-made waterways, navvies, ports, port of Manchester, Ellesmere Port, trade, commerce, commercial, transport, Lancashire, Britain, British, England, English, sources, documents, bibliography, research, bibliographies
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Bagwell, Philip S.
Doncaster: Town of Train Makers, 1853-1990
(Doncaster, 1991).
Signed by the author. Hardback. Outsized book, very good+. vii + 136pp. Order No. NSBK-A12364
Keywords: 0906976375, trains, railways, transport, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Doncaster, manufacture, engineering, plant works, factory, factories, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, industry, work
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