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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Jenkin, Michael.
British Industry and the North Sea: State Intervention in a Developing Industrial Sector
(Macmillan, 1981).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings, otherwise very good in slightly wavy dustwrapper. xiii + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A7525
Keywords: 0333256069, Britain, British, England, English, history, state intervention, economy, economics, North Sea, seas, oil, gas, companies, business, twentieth century, 20th
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Anderson, Bonnie S. and Zinsser, Judith P.
A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Pre-history to the Present Vol II
(Penguin, rpt., 1990).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xix + 572pp. Order No. NSBK-C9735
Keywords: 0140125337, women, woman, Europe, European, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, century, Renaissance, Europe, Europeans
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Guenault, Paul H and Jackson, J. M.
The Control of Monopoly in the United Kingdom:
(Longman, 2nd edit., 1974).
Hardback. Spine sunned, otherwise very good+. ix + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A10465
Keywords: 058044053X, economy, economics, Britain, British, history, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, economists, policy, monopolies, Restrictive Practices Commisssion, mergers, the Fair Trading Act
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Tylecote, Mabel.
The Future of Adult Education:
(Fabian Society, 1960).
Paperback. Good, in booklet form. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C5209
Keywords: 071631214X, education, adult education, higher education, history, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian Society, fabianism, adults, Mabel Tylecote, twentieth century, social history, students, WEA, Workers' Educational Association
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Buchanan, Mary.
The Children's Village: The Village of Peace
(University of London Press, rpt., 1957).
With a foreword by Walter Robert Corti and an introduction by H. J. Alexander. Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards faded with sellotape marks, otherwise good. 39+platespp. Order No. NSBK-A6625
Keywords: B0000CJPX5, education, educational, schools, schooling, children, childhood, child, children's village, Pestalozzi, Switzerland, Swiss, Europe, European, twentieth century, post war, utopian villages, history of ideas
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Janosik, Edward G.
Constituency Labour Parties in Britain:
(Pall Mall Press, 1968).
Hardback. Good+. vii + 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A12529
Keywords: 0269992944, labour, labor, party, parties, politics, political, politicians, government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Batchelor, Mary.
Catherine Bramwell-Booth:
(Lion Book, 1986).
Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks flyleaf, otherwise good, in creased dustwrapper. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C6395
Keywords: 0745910270, Salvation army, religion, Christian, philanthropy, Britain, British, England, English, history, Catherine Bramwell-Booth, Booths, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, Edwardian, biographies, biography, religious
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Binder, F. M., and Reimers, D. M.
The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History
(D.C. Heath and Co, 1992).
Volume II: 1865-Present. Paperback. Covers slightly worn, otherwise good. x + 326pp. Order No. NSBK-A4557
Keywords: 0669244759, American, America, United States, USA, history, social history, nineteenth century, twentieth century
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