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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Drake, Barbara.
Women in Trade Unions:
(Virago, 1984 rpt of 1920 ed.).
Intro by Branson. With folding tables. Now out-of-print again. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. xiv + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-C393
Keywords: 0860684059, Virago, trade union, trade unions, trade unionism, labour, labor, labour history, labor history, Left, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, work, workers, working women, skilled labour, unskilled labour, TUC, Women's Trade Union League
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Foote, Cheryl J.
Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912:
(Colorado UP, 1990).
Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xviii + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-C9061
Keywords: 0870812157, woman, woman, New Mexico, Victorian, American, America, United States, USA, New Mexican frontier, Edwardian, nineteenth century, twentieth, 19th, 20th, Harriet shaw, Catherine Gorman, missionary, missionaries, women's work, women and work, Katie Bowen, Anna Maria Morris, Santa Fe Trail, Ellen Williams, Josephine Clifford, Alice Blake, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Pueblo Indians
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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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McGann, Susan; Crowther, Anne and Dougall, Rona.
History of the Royal College of Nursing 1916-90: A Voice for Nurses
(Manchester UP, 2009).
Paperback. Fine. x + 358pp. Order No. NSBK-C14752
Keywords: 9780719077968, nursing, nurses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, hospitals, Royal College of Nursing, managers, NHS, National Health Service, training, unions, unionism, trade unionism, women and work
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Dench, Geoff, ed.
Grandmothers of the Revolution:
(Hera Trust with Institute of Community S, 2000).
Paperback. Front cover slightly bent, otherwise fine. xvii + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-C9952
Keywords: 0952352915, grandmothers, mothers, motherhood, family, families, twentieth century, society, history, women and work, women's work, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, sociology, sociological, 20th
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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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Vicinus, Martha, ed.
A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women
(Indiana UP, 1977).
Important collection of essays on women's history, now very scarce. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, slightly edge worn dustwrapper. xix + 326pp. Order No. NSBK-C1942
Keywords: 0253365406, Victorian, women's history, nineteenth century, women and work, jobs, work, Britain, British, England, English, history, Martha Vicinus, widening sphere
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Stern, Madeleine B.
We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America
(Nebraska UP, rpt, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 403pp. Order No. NSBK-C2528
Keywords: 0803292236, America, American, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, career, sexual equality, women and work, women's work, job
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Horn, Pamela.
Victorian Countrywomen:
(Basil Blackwell, 1991).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xiii + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-C15519
Keywords: 0631155228, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, countrywomen, work, rural life, country, countryside, women's history, women's work
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