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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Heinemann, Margot.
Wages Front:
(Lawrence & Wishart, 1947).
Hardback. Very good in foxed, browned & slightly chipped dustwrapper. xii + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A5507
Keywords: B0006ARPZ2, Margot Heinemann, post war, post-war, postwar, Labour Research Department, economy, economic, history, wages, earnings, wage, income, Britain, British, England, English, wage-earners, labour, labor, minimum wage, skilled, unskilled, cost of living, low wages, economic recovery, reconstruction
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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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Hammond, J.L. & Hammond, Barbara.
The Town Labourer:
(Longman, 1978).
Paperback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good. xlvii + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A7559
Keywords: 0582480817, Hammond, urban labourers, town, work, industry, employment, poor, poverty, unemployment, urbanisation, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history, town, towns, work, Britain, British, England, English, Hammonds, poor, factories, factory, factory system, power looms, industrial revolution, workers, class, working class, working classes, child labour, labour, labor, Lord Shaftesbury, trade unions, economic history, economy
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Eales, Jacqueline.
Women in Early Modern England, 1500-1700:
(UCL Press, 1998).
Paperback. Card covers slightly faded / creased, otherwise very good. viii + 133pp. Order No. NSBK-C3928
Keywords: 9781857282689, women, history, early modern, England, Britain, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, gender, British, English, family, work, working, labour, labor
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Hareven, Tamara K. and Langenbach, Randolph.
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City in New England
(Methuen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A3210
Keywords: 0416721605, city, industrial, Amoskeag, America, American, American history, labour history, labor history, Amoskeag, United States, USA manufacturing company, textile, Merrimack, New Hampshire, factory, immigration, oral history
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Mearns, Andrew.
The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: With leading articles from the Pall Mall Gazette of October 1883 and articles by Lord Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain and Forster Crozier
(Humanities Press, Leicester University Press, 1970).
Edited and with an introduction by Anthony S. Wohl. Hardback. Very good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-A6676
Keywords: 9780718550035, Bitter Cry of Outcast London, Andrew Mearns, Lord Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain, Forster Crozier, social history, Anthony S. Wohl, poverty, urban history, London, metropolitan, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, Pall Mall Gazette, Methodism, Methodists, artisans' dwellings, housing, social conditions, living conditions, labour, labor, labourers, laborers, the poor, pauperism
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Showler, Brian & Sinfield, Adrian, eds.
The Workless State: Studies in Unemployment
(Martin Robertson, 1981).
Foreword by Peter Townsend. Paperback. Spine creased, light soiling to edges, otherwise good. xvii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A6512
Keywords: 0855203404, unemployment, employment, work, labor, labour, twentieth century, poverty, men, politics, political economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, Keynes, government, society, tax, taxation, history
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Drake, Barbara.
Women in Trade Unions:
(Virago, 1984 rpt of 1920 ed.).
Intro by Branson. With folding tables. Now out-of-print again. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. xiv + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-C393
Keywords: 0860684059, Virago, trade union, trade unions, trade unionism, labour, labor, labour history, labor history, Left, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, work, workers, working women, skilled labour, unskilled labour, TUC, Women's Trade Union League
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Hakim, Catherine.
Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market:
(OUP, 1998).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xvii + 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A12473
Keywords: 019829381X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, labour, labor, work, social change, employment, twentietrh century, 20th, census, women's work
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