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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National Research Council, .
Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment
(National Academy Press, 1986).
Volume 1. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14140
Keywords: 0309036887, work, women and work, employment, workers, computers, technology, labour, labor, female, clerical work, white collar, Louise A. Tilly
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Hareven, Tamara K. and Langenbach, Randolph.
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City in New England
(Methuen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A3210
Keywords: 0416721605, city, industrial, Amoskeag, America, American, American history, labour history, labor history, Amoskeag, United States, USA manufacturing company, textile, Merrimack, New Hampshire, factory, immigration, oral history
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Floud, Roderick and McCloskey, Donald, eds.
The Economic History of Britain Since 1700:
(CUP, rpt, 1984).
Volume I only, 1700 - 1860. Paperback. Light creasing & yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. xv + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-A8899
Keywords: 0521298423, economy, economics, Roderick Floud, Donald McCloskey, history, labour, labor, labour supply, population, 18th century, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, demography, trade, empire, capital, capital accumulation, agriculture, industrial revolution, technology, technical progress, Britain, British, England, English
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Marshall, Dorothy.
The English Domestic Servant in History:
(Historical Association, 1949).
Booklet. Light soiling to covers, otherwise good. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-C13363
Keywords: B0000CO8HZ, domestic service, domestic servants, work, women workers, servants, maid servants, housemaids, household, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, female, labour, labor, booklet
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Seear, B.N.
Re-Entry of Women to the Labour Market After An Interruption in Employment:
(Organsiation for Economic Co-op & Dev, 1971).
Employment of Special Groups 7. Paperback. Spine slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 135pp. Order No. NSBK-C11411
Keywords: B0006CXI3I, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women and work, women's work, labour, labor, labour market, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, employment, employers, employees, twentieth century, 20th
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Rahikainen, Marjatta.
Centuries of Child Labour: European Experience from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
(Ashgate, 2004).
Hardback. Fine. ix + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A10255
Keywords: 0754604985, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, European, Europe, child, children, labour, labor, work, peasants, factories, factory, Agricultural Revolution
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Joyce, Patrick.
Work, Society & Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England
(Rutgers UP, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light scuffing to back cover, otherwise very good+. xxv + 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A9036
Keywords: 081351083X, factory, factories, nineteenth century, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, social history, society, politics, class, paternalism, deference, labour, labor, 19th century, industry, factory system, Patrick Joyce, community, communities
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Kendall, Walter.
The Labour Movement in Europe:
(Allen Lane, rpt., 1975).
Paperback. Covers faded, page edges soiled, otherwise very good. xxi + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-A5979
Keywords: 0713904992, labor, labour, movement, Europe, European, history, politics, work, working, European Economic Community, EEC, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Industrial Revolution, France, French, German, Germany, Britain, British, Belgium, Belgian, Netherlands, Holland, Dutch, motor industry, trade unions, trade unionism, Italy, Italian, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century
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Sapsford, David.
Labour Market Economics:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1981).
Economics and Society Series No 9. Paperback. Covers slightly creased, otherwise good+. xi + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A11268
Keywords: 0043310834, labour, labor, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, twentieth century, 20th
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