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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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, and Roger Leech.
Early Industrial Housing: the Trinity Area of Frome
(HMSO, 1981).
Supplementary Series. Paperback. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. viii + 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A7705
Keywords: 0117009075, Frome, Trinity Area, industrial housing, housing, houses, social history, architecture, architectural, buildings, homes, surveys, plans, streets, neighbourhood, town planning, regional studies, Britain, British, England, English, Somerset, urban, urbanisation, urban development, growth, 18th century, eighteenth century
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Dale Women's Institute, .
Dale: An Illustrated History
(Dale Women's Institute, Pennsylvania, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A9821
Keywords: 095386930X, Dale, Wales, Welsh, Dale Women's Institute, Britain, British, history, community, communities
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Department of Employment, .
Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work: 1st April 1971
(HMSO, 1971).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some creasing to front cover, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A14182
Keywords: 0113603738, wages, hours, work, time rates, employment, 1970s, seventies, manufacturing, industry, economy, textiles, factories, factory, engineering, social history, pay
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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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Hampshire Federation of Women's Institut, .
Hampshire: Within Living Memory
(Countryside Books, 1994).
Paperback. Cover creased, otherwise good+. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A11942
Keywords: 1853062901, Hampshire, Women's Institutes, Hampshire Federation of Women's Institutes, rural, agricultural, British counties, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Stott, Mary.
Organization Woman: the Story of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds
(Heinemann, 1978).
Hardback. Ex lib with usual lib stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C1256
Keywords: 434748005, Mary Stott, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, women, history, women's rights, women's movement, England, Britain, British, English
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Suffragettes, .
Reproduction Votes for Women Badge: Votes for Women Shield in a Square
(Portrayer, 2010).
Attractive plated metal brooch / badge with firm safety-pin fitment at the rear for affixing to clothes. A faithful reproduction of the original. The image displays the words "Votes for Women" on a white sash in the middle of a purple and green shield. The badge itself is square in shape. 25mm by 25mm. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15005
Keywords: badges, brooches, jewellery, history, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, social history, Votes for Women, campaign, women's movement, suffragette ephemera, replica suffragette ephemera
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Unesco, .
Bibliographic Guide to Studies on the Status of Women: Development and Population Trends
(Unesco, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good in creased dustwrapper. xii + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A7767
Keywords: 9231021222, women, women's history, woman, female, bibliography, biobliographies, bibliographic, reference, status, class, classes, population, demography, demographic
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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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