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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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
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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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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
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Chiplin, Brian and Sloane, Peter.
Sex Discrimination in the Labour Market:
(Macmillan, 1976).
Hardback. Good in browned dustwrapper. ix + 161pp. Order No. NSBK-A10544
Keywords: 0333191250, sex, sexual discrimination, labour, labor, economics, economic, jobs, wages, salaries, women, women and work, women workers, women's studies, women's history, gender, employment, twentieth century, 20th, twentieth century, 20th, careers, labour, labor, sex, salary, salaries, wages, economy, economic, women's work, workplaces, USA, United States, US, feminism, feminists, occupations, occupational segregation, equal opportunities, equal rights, discrimination, capitalism
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Horn, Pamela.
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant:
(Gill and Macmillan, 1975).
Hardback. With minor pencil annotation, and newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15682
Keywords: 717107469, Victorian, servants, nineteenth century, women, history, work, domesticity, employment, class, domestics, maids, maidservants, Britain, British, England, English, domestic service, housework, below stairs
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McDougall, Linda.
Cherie: The Perfect Life of Mrs Blair
(Politico's, 2001).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xii + 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C11225
Keywords: 1902301870, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, politics, political, politicians, government, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Barker, Diana Leonard and Allen, Sheila, eds.
Sexual Divisions and Society: Process and Change
(Tavistock Publications, 1976).
Explorations in Sociology 6. Paperback. Back cover soiled, otherwise good. ix + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-C9137
Keywords: 0422748307, women and work, women's work, sexuality, equal rights, gender, women, women's rights, women's movement, Marxism, Women's Studies
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McCourt, Kathleen.
Working-Class Women and Grass Roots Politics:
(Indiana UP, 1977).
Hardback. Good+ in worn and slightly torn dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C10965
Keywords: working class women
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