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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Floud, Roderick and McCloskey, Donald, eds.
The Economic History of Britain Since 1700:
(CUP, rpt, 1984).
Volume I only, 1700 - 1860. Paperback. Light creasing & yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. xv + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-A8899
Keywords: 0521298423, economy, economics, Roderick Floud, Donald McCloskey, history, labour, labor, labour supply, population, 18th century, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, demography, trade, empire, capital, capital accumulation, agriculture, industrial revolution, technology, technical progress, Britain, British, England, English
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Anon, .
A Survey of the History, Commerce and Manufactures of Lancashire: Together With Extracts, Reproduced by Request, From "The Home Trade of Manchester" and a Biographical Sketch of Reuben Spencer
(Biographical Publishing, 1897).
Including Jubilee Demonstrations. Hardback. Lacks front endpaper, slight cracking internally at spine, corners rubbed, but overall very good. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A5186
Keywords: B000HBZ0H0, Lancashire, North West, England, English, Britain, British, trade, nineteenth century, Jubilee, Victorian, history, commerce, industry, industrial, manufactures, manufacturing, textile, textiles, cotton, factory, factories, factory system, Manchester Ship Canal, Manchester, Reuben Spencer, commercial, economy, economic
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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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Smith, Alice E.
Millstone and Saw: The Origins of Neenah-Menasha
(Wisconsin Historical Society, 1967).
Hardback. Good in rather soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. vii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14936
Keywords: 0870200968, urban, history, America, United States of America, city, cities, water mills, industry, industrial growthFox River, Neenah-Menasha, manufacturing, ninetenth century, American West
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Hartford, William F.
Where is Our Responsibility?: Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960
(Massachusetts Press, 1996).
Hardback. Very good+. x + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A12362
Keywords: 1558490221, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, New England, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, , Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, textiles, factories, factory, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, work
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McNeil, Robina and Walker, John S. F.
Warehouse Album: The Heritage Atlas 3. An Archaeological Miscellany from the University of Manchester and the Ten Districts of Greater Manchester
(Field Archaeology Centre, Manchester University, March 1997).
Paperback. Some creasing and scuffing to covers, otherwise very good. 59pp. Order No. NSBK-A14530
Keywords: 0952781352, city, urban, archaeological, warehouses, warehouse, Manchester, Greater Manchester, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, industrial archaeology, Leigh, Rochdale, exports, storage, cities, urbanisation
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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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Perry, P. J., ed.
British Agriculture, 1875-1914:
(Methuen and Co, 1973).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xliv + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-A6694
Keywords: 0416759408, history, Britain, British, England, English, agriculture, agricultural, countryside, country, rural, farms, farming, landowners, farmers, industry, industrial, food, cereal, pastoral, economy, economics
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Wrigley, Ammon.
Those Were the Days:
(Whittaker and Sons, Stalybridge, 1937).
Illustrated reminiscences. Hardback. Some heavy staining to spine. Original cloth worn at edges and slightly marked, internally a good working copy. xi + 288pp. Order No. NSBK-A14066
Keywords: B0018IK3LE, Lancashire, Blackpool, Saddleworth, moors, Holmfirth, Yorkshire, mills, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social history, memories, industrial history
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