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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Clark, Peter, ed.
The Early Modern Town: A Reader
(Longman & Open UP, 1976).
Paperback. Covers yellowed, a little creasing to spine, otherwise good. 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A5313
Keywords: 0582484057,Early Modern, town, towns, planning, urban, pre-industrial, English, England, Britain, British, history, economics, economy, London, Norwich, Sheffield
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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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Flinn, M. W and Smout, T. C. eds.
Essays in Social History:
(Clarendon Press, 1974).
Edited for the Economic History Society. Paperback. Minor annotation, slightly shaky with tatty covers, a good working copy. xi + 289pp. Order No. NSBK-A5657
Keywords: 0198770170, social history, economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, labour, labor, Industrial Revolution, industry, Sunday Schools, Manchester, Poor Laws, class, classes, towns, urban history, social reform, mortality, trade unions, women's history, trade unionism
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Baines, Thomas.
History of the Town and Commerce of Liverpool: and of the Rise of Manufacturing Industry in the Adjoining Counties
(Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, London, Liverpool, 1852).
Small library markings to spine and front endpaper. Frontispiece plan of Liverpool damaged and repaired with sellotape. Another plan, of Royalist Fortifications, torn in two but complete. A little rubbing / bumping to corners, but a very nice copy indeed, sound and tight. Hardback. Full leather nicely repaired. Gilt decoration front & back, raised gilt bands & titles to spine, all edges gilt. Ex library, but library markings minimal. Very good, attractive. xvi + 844 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A6861
Keywords: B000K40UBA, towns, cities, urban, city, commerce, commercial, manufacturing, manufacture, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England, Britain, British, English, counties, Lancashire, history, urbanisation, antiquarian, industry, industrial, Thomas Baines, Industrial Revolution, industrialisation, town, Mersey, Victorian, nineteenth century, Liverpool Docks, trade, exports, imports, economic, economy, ports, port
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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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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
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Pugh, Martin.
State and Society: British Political and Social History, 1870-1992
(Edward Arnold, 1994).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation. With newspaper cuttings pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good. viii + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-A8680
Keywords: 9780340507100, Britain, British, England, English, history, state, industrial decline, social conditions, social welfare, 19th century, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, 20th century, society, politics, political
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Dauber, Roslyn and Cain, Melinda L.
Women and Technological Changes in Developing Countries:
(AAAS Selected Symposium, 1981).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, a little splashing to front board, otherwise good. xxii + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C8446
Keywords: 0891587918, work, women, woman, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, Third World, developing countries, feminism, feminists, food, industry, industrial, Tangaye, Maya, Chan Kom, demographic, demography, mothers, development
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Allen, G.C.
Japan's Economic Expansion:
(OUP, rpt., 1969).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xi + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A11957
Keywords: 0192149318, Japan, Japanese, Far East, Asian, Asia, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, twentieth century, 20th, industrial, industries, demography, demographic, population, fisheries, fishery, textiles
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