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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Hetherington, H.
The Poor Man's Guardian, 1831 - 1835: Vol 3
(Merlin Press, 1969).
A Reprint of the Original Journal with Introduction by Patricia Hollis. VOLUME 3. 14th September 1833 to 27th December 1834. Large book. Hardback. Vol 3. A little light spotting to bright green cloth, slight soiling to page edges, otherwise very good in sun-faded, slightly soiled dustwrapper, torn at the spine. xlv + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A12877
Keywords: Poor Man's Guardian, pre-Chartism, pre-Chartists, pre-Chartist, pre-Chartist movement, working classes, history, 19th century, nineteenth century, Henry Hetherington, radicalism, radicals, Britain, British, England, English, Patricia Hollis, Owenism, Robert Owen, Owenites, National Union of the Working Classes, Labour Theory of Value, Whigs, Reform Act, 1832 Reform Act, 1832 Reform Bill, reformers
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Brown, Phillip and Scase, Richard, eds.
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour
(Open UP, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A14097
Keywords: 0335099408, labour, labor, division of labour, working classes, low-paid jobs, unskilled labour, low pay, working conditions, temporary work, part-time work, labour market, economy, employment
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Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, ed.
Woman's Mission: a Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women by Eminent Writers
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile of 1893 ed).
For the Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893. Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, spine slightly creased, otherwise very good. viii + 485pp. Order No. NSBK-C4894
Keywords: 9781378684542, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropy, philanthropic, women, woman, women's history, woman's, woman's mission, women and work, Britain, British, England, English, poor, poverty, Victorian, nineteenth century, societies, temperance, organisations, friendly societies, friendly society, Florence Nightingale, sisterhood, charity, charities, Sarah Ponsonby, working class, working classes, needlework, poor laws, ragged schools, education, welfare, social welfare, social history, women's work, missions, women workers, rescue work, Portrayers, Portrayer Publishers, philanthropic institutions, Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893, victoriana, Portrayer's, women's work, woman worker, woman workers
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Walvin, James.
English Urban Life, 1776-1851:
(Hutchinson, 1984).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise good. vii + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A7558
Keywords: 0091561515, James Walvin, England, English, history, Britain, British, towns, cities, city, urban, metropolitan, metropolis, population, demographic, demography, housing, homes, houses, streets, machinery, social class, classes, poverty, urbanisation, urbanization, poor, public order, law enforcement
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Selley, Ernest.
Village Trade Unions in Two Centuries:
(George Allen & Unwin, 1919).
Paperback. Covers darkened / soiled with some wear to edges, otherwise a good working copy. 183pp. Order No. NSBK-A8667
Keywords: B00085LYAW, villages, rural, village, trade unions, trade unionism, associations, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, 20th century, twentieth century, organisation, Britain, British, England, English, labouring classes, labour, labor, class, rural labourers, laborers, agriculture, agricultural, wages, wage, minimum wage, Joseph Arch
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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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England, Joe, editor.
Changing Lives: Workers' Education in Wales, 1907 - 2007
(Welsh People's History Society, 2007).
Paperback. Very good+. vi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A14197
Keywords: B001SGXJE4, Wales, Welsh, history, education, twentieth century, schools, WEA, working classes, adult education, workers, Workers' Educational Association
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Rubinstein, David.
Victorian Homes:
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Boards lightly soiled, otherwise very good. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A8040
Keywords: 071536765X, Victorian, homes, houses, nineteenth, 19th, century, residences, residential, class, architecture, architectural, classes, slums, housing, terraces, planning, sanitation, hot water, heating, lighting, flats, tenements, society
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Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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