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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Liddle, Roger.
The New Case for Europe: The Crisis in British Pro-Europeanism - and How to Overcome it
(Fabian Society, 2005).
Fabian Ideas 615. Paperback. Very good. vi + 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A11179
Keywords: 0716306158, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Europe, European, twentieth century, 20th
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Jackowska, Nicki.
Lighting a Slow Fuse: New and Selected Poems
(Enitharmon Press, 1998).
Paperback. Bottom cover bumped, otherwise very good. 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A9260
Keywords: 1900564114, poems, poets, poetry, Nicki Jackowska, literary, literature, women's history
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Abraham, Katharine and McKersie, Robert, eds.
New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm
(MIT Press, 1990).
Hardback. Very good + in dustwrapper. 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A10265
Keywords: 0262011182, economics, institutions, economy, twentieth century, 20th, labour markets, labor, employers, employees, workers, public policy
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Eastwood, G. F.
Queen Elizabeth's: A New History of the Ancient Grammar School of Blackburn
(J. Dickenson, 1967).
Hardback. Very good in chipped/torn dustwrapper repaired with sellotape. xx + 126pp. Order No. NSBK-C6262
Keywords: B000HBXWK2, Blackburn, schools, schooling, education, children, girls' schools, girls schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, Queen Elizabeth's, Lancashire
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Davies, A. J.
To Build a New Jerusalem: The Labour Movement from the 1880s to the 1990s
(Michael Joseph, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. vi + 344pp. Order No. NSBK-A8529
Keywords: 0718133943, labour labor, politics, political, Labour Party, Britain, British, England, English, history, organisations, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, socialism, socialists
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Weaver, Mary Jo.
New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority
(Indiana UP, 1995).
Paperback. Very good. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C5027
Keywords: 0253209935, Catholic, Catholicism, religion, religious, women, woman, history, reloigion, religious, Roman Catholic, Americ, American, United States, USA
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Royden, Maude.
Women's Partnership in the New World:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1941).
Hardback. Spine sunfaded, otherwise good in soiled and torn dustwrapper. 141pp. Order No. NSBK-C15481
Keywords: B0010WBLA0, women, woman, female, females, sex, civilization, twentieth century, histor, historical Britain, British
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McCloskey, Donald, N., ed.
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the MSSB Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970
(Methuen, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dw. xv + 439pp. Order No. NSBK-A4659
Keywords: 0416082408, Mathematical Social Science Board, economy, economists, economics, demography, capital, capitalism, Britain, British, history, steam, 416082408, Victorian, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, Atlantic economy, American iron production
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Alden, Carella.
From Early American Paintbrushes: Colony to New Nation
(Parents' Magazine Press, 1971).
Illustrated. Based on the production from Yankee Paintbrushes, presented in the art Entertainment series for young people at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hardback. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A10076
Keywords: 0819304778, colony, colonies, American, USA, United States, US, painters, paintings, art, artists, colony, colonies
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