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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Symons, Julian.
The General Strike:
(Cresset Library, rpt, 1987).
Paperback. Spine and front cover lightly creased, otherwise good. xviii + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-A8882
Keywords: 0091729289, General Strike, Britain, British, history, England, English, nineteen twenties, unions, trade unions, trades unions, trade unionism, strikes, industrial action, 1920s, inter-war, interwar, inter war
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Herzog, Marianne.
From Hand to Mouth: Women and Piecework
(Penguin, rpt., 1980).
Paperback. Good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-C4791
Keywords: 0140220895, women, women and work, history, women's history, German, Germany, Europe, European, West Germany, Philips, Siemens, piecework, wages, unemployment, employment, jobs, factory work, industry, industries, industrial, labor, labour, labor market, labour market. twentieth century
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Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, .
Education and Training for the Cotton and Rayon Industry: Papers and Dicussions at a Conference in Manchester in September 1946 Organized by the Cotton Board With the Collaboration of the British Rayon Federation, the Textile Institute and the Textile Teachers' Association
(Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, 1946).
A series of essays from different contributors. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly browned, edge worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7704
Keywords: post war, post-war industry, cotton, textiles, rayon, training, industries, textile, Britain, British, England, English, Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Department, industrial training, production, technical colleges, teach, teachers, teaching, technical education, history
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Shaxby, W. J.
The Case Against Picketing:
(Liberty Review Publishing, 2nd edition, 1897).
Hardback. Covers soiled with some light wear to edges. Ex library with minimal library markings, otherwise a good copy. viii + 86pp. Order No. NSBK-A14225
Keywords: B0017XSNH6, trade unions, trade unionism, picketing, strikes, pickets, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, riots, Free Labour Protection Association, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, strike, industrial disputes
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Beckerman, Wilfred.
Slow Growth in Britain: Causes and Consequences
(Clarendon Press, 1979).
Paperback. Very good +. vi + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-A10121
Keywords: 0198284217, Britain, British, England, English, history, industry, industrial, economics, economic, twentieth century, 20th, British Association for the Advancement of Science Economics, slow growth, productivity, manufacturing
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Clark, Peter, ed.
The Early Modern Town: A Reader
(Longman & Open UP, 1976).
Paperback. Covers yellowed, a little creasing to spine, otherwise good. 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A5313
Keywords: 0582484057,Early Modern, town, towns, planning, urban, pre-industrial, English, England, Britain, British, history, economics, economy, London, Norwich, Sheffield
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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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Rose, Sonya O.
Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England
(Routledge, 1992).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to rear endpaper, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A5017
Keywords: 9780415056540, Victorian, history, nineteenth century, gender, women, England, English, Britain, British, capitalism, industry, work, industrialisation, Industrial Revolution, economy, economic, working women, women's history, working class, working classes, sexual discrimination, gender roles
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Pahl, R. E.
Divisions of Labour:
(Basil Blackwell, 1984).
Paperback. Near fine. 362pp. Order No. NSBK-C7834
Keywords: 0631132740, Britain, British, England, English, history, inome, money, gender, labor, labour, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, Industrial Revolution, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 18th, 19th, sociology, sociologial, households, families, family, neighbourhoods, neighborhoods, class, status, communities, community, work, employment, jobs
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