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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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
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Theakstone, John.
Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers: A Bibliography of Books Published in English
(Martino Publishing, 2006).
Hardback. New book, fine. xxii + 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A14043
Keywords: 1578986486, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, travel, travellers, world travel, Empire, women travellers, bibliography, exploration, 19th century, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, resources, women writers, guide, guidebooks
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Chapman, J. Vincent.
Your Secondary Modern Schools: An Account of Their Work in the Late 1950s
(College of Preceptors, 1959).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, splitting / cracking internally at binding, else good in chipped sl soiled dw. 298pp. Order No. NSBK-A14178
Keywords: B001AG4U5Y, education, secondary modern, schools, fifties, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 1950s, post war, vocational training, technical education, examinations, teaching, teachers, social history
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Graham, Andrew with Seldon, Anthony, ed.
Government and Economies in the Postwar World: Economic Policies and Comparative Performance, 1945-85
(Routledge, 1990).
Paperback. Minor annotation, otherwise good. x + 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A8457
Keywords: 0415072883, government, policies, politics, economy, economics, twentieth century, 20th, United Kingdom, Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Soviet union, United States, USA, America, Japan
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Paperback. Fine. iv + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4311
Keywords: 0718500598, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Hardback. Fine. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4312
Keywords: 071850058X, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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Nelson, Barbara J and Chowdhury, Najma.
Women and Politics Worldwide:
(Yale University Press, 1994).
Hardback. Covers faded in patches, otherwise a good+ copy. xi + 818pp. Order No. NSBK-C11884
Keywords: 0300054076, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, world, international, Europe, European, politics, political, politicians, government, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists
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Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
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Sangster, Joan.
Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada
(Toronto UP, 2010).
Paperback. Very good+. x + 414pp. Order No. NSBK-A15111
Keywords: 9780802096524, Canada, Canadian, working women, women, history, postwar, after the war, labour, employment, women's work
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