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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Lockwood, Helen Drusilla.
Tools and the Man: A Comparative Study of the French Workingman and English Chartists in the Literature of 1830-1848
(AMS Press, 1966).
Hardback. Cloth slightly rubbed, otherwise good. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A6133
Keywords: B0007DWRK6, England, English, French, French, British, Britain, Europe, European, history, workingman, working class, working-class, Chartists, radicals, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, Chartism, Chartist Movement, working classes
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Tumin, Melvin M.
Social Stratification: The Forms and Functions of Inequality
(Prentice-Hall, 1967).
Foundations of Modern Sociology Series. Paperback. Covers slightly worn, otherwise very good. vi + 118pp. Order No. NSBK-A10617
Keywords: 0138185913, class, stratification, social, society, theory, theories, inequality, equality, twentieth century, 20th
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Harrison, J.F.C. & Thompson, Dorothy.
Bibliography of the Chartist Movement, 1837-1976:
(Harvester Press, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvi + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A627
Keywords: 0855273348, bibliography, bibliographies, Chartism, Chartists, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, politics, working class, working classes, working-class, class system, democracy
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Butt, J. and Clarke, I.F. eds.
The Victorians and Social Protest: A Symposium
(David and Charles/Archon, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 249pp. Order No. NSBK-A13449
Keywords: 071535776X, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, social protest, Robert Owen, O'Connor, Ireland, Irish, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Dickens, Self-Help, William Morris, Bernard Shaw, class, land
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Harrison, J.F.C.
A History of the Working Men's College, 1854-1954:
(RKP, 1954).
Hardback. A little soiling to cloth, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+. xix + 215pp. Order No. NSBK-A4091
Keywords: B0000CIYZB, Working Men's College, education, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, class, George Tansley, adult education, mature students, WEA, Working Men's Association, clubs, Britain, British, England, English, working classes, working class, class, higher education, illiteracy, illiterate, literate, literacy, working men's colleges
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Porter, Susan L. ed.
Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
(Mass UP, 1996).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C8449
Keywords: 1558490051, women, woman, women's history, Commonwealth, American, USA, United States, family, children, social changes, nineteenth century, Victorian, womanhood, gender, ethnicity, race, class, jobs, employment, employees, employers, families, sisterhood, women's studies, Massachusetts, Boston, Bostonians
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Banks, J. A.
Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families
(Gregg Revivals, rpt., 1994).
Hardback. Near fine. 203pp. Order No. NSBK-C7998
Keywords: 075120269X, contraception, family planning, children, Victorian, secularism, middle class, sexual habits, motherhood, fatherhood, health, nineteenth century, families, family, family size, birth control, history, middle classes, Britain, British, England, English, sexuality, birth rate, sexual morality, standard of living, social conditions, fertility, morals, moral code
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Clark, Alice.
Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century:
(RKP, rpt, 1982).
Paperback. Covers edge worn and faded, otherwise good. xliii + 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C6631
Keywords: 0710090455, Alice Clark, seventeenth century, women, women and work, working women, capitalism, labouring women, class, wives, widows, mothers, midwives, midwife, social history, England, Britain, English, British, 17th century, midwifery
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Wedin, Carolyn.
Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
(John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
Foreword by David Levering Lewis. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 367pp. Order No. NSBK-C10243
Keywords: 0471168386, American, USA, United States, USA, Civil Rights Movement, civil rights, black history, Mary White Ovingham, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, feminism, feminists, race, racism, slavery, class
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