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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Stansell, Christine.
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1986).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise very good in edgeworn and torn dustwrapper. xiv + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C13258
Keywords: 039451534X, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, class, classes, New York,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, eighteenth century, nineteenth century
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Glass, David, ed.
Social Mobility in Britain:
(RKP, 1954).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Cloth worn espec at edges, otherwise a good working copy. viii + 412pp. Order No. NSBK-A527
Keywords: B0010XSGM0, class, classes, class structure, social mobility, status, occupations, sociology
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Rowbotham, Judith.
Good Girls Make Good Wives: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction
(Blackwell, 1989).
Paperback. Some sunfading to covers, otherwise good+. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C4162
Keywords: 0631163964, wives, wife, girls, education, fiction, literature, Judith Rowbotham, Victorian, nineteenth century, childhood, middle class, middle classes, reading habits, domesticity, private sphere, separate spheres, femininity, feminine, novels, L.T. Meade, history, social control, Charlotte Mary Yonge, women
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Taking Liberties Collective, Jo Campling, ed.
Learning the Hard Way: Women's Oppression in Men's Education
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. Pencil annotation to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C14100
Keywords: 0333432835, education, women, men, femininity, gender, masculinity, equality, working classes, further education, higher education, feminism, oppression
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Guttsman, W. L., ed.
The English Ruling Class:
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969).
Readings in Politics and Society. Paperback. Page edges soiled, otherwise good. xii + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-A9486
Keywords: 0297179241, English, England, British, Britain, history, classes, landowners, gentry, nobility, aristocracy, elections, civil service, army, clergy
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Shaw, Jenny.
Intellectual Property, Representative Experience and Mass-Observation:
(Uni Sussex, 1998).
Booklet. Good. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-A5235
Keywords: 0850870402, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, working classes, working class, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, Occasional Papers, group experience, Jenny Shaw, groups, booklet
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Thompson, E.P. and Yeo, Eileen.
The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the "Morning Chronicle" 1849 - 50
(Penguin, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light creasing to spine, covers slightly yellowed. Newspaper review pasted to inside of cover, else good. 592pp. Order No. NSBK-A14943
Keywords: 0140432302, Henry Mayhew, Morning Chronicle, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, social investigations, poor, poverty, London, working class, working-class, classes, trades
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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
(Macgibbon and Kee, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxxvi + 431pp. Order No. NSBK-A14555
Keywords: 0901740888, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, trade unionism, industrial democracy, industrialisation, working classes, trade disputes, wages, pay, Labour Party, shop stewards
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Flinn, M. W and Smout, T. C. eds.
Essays in Social History:
(Clarendon Press, 1974).
Edited for the Economic History Society. Paperback. Minor annotation, slightly shaky with tatty covers, a good working copy. xi + 289pp. Order No. NSBK-A5657
Keywords: 0198770170, social history, economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, labour, labor, Industrial Revolution, industry, Sunday Schools, Manchester, Poor Laws, class, classes, towns, urban history, social reform, mortality, trade unions, women's history, trade unionism
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