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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Ainsworth, Jim.
Accrington 1926: a Comprehensive History of the General Strike as it Affected Accrington and District
(Hyndburn Trades Union Council, 1994).
Paperback. Fine. v + 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A14008
Keywords: 0952349604, Accrington, Lancashire, General Strike, history, strikes, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Labour Party, socialism, socialist, labour, trade unions, trade unionism, 1920s, twenties
Price £7.00.
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Maclean, Mavis.
Surviving Divorce: Women's Resources After Separation
(Macmillan, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 151pp. Order No. NSBK-A14114
Keywords: 0333465342, divorce, marriage, family, separation, women, economic, welfare, remarriage, labour market, splitting up, single women, sociology
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Hobbs, Margaret and Sangster Joan.
The Woman Worker, 1926-1929:
(Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999).
Paperback. Near fine. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A12324
Keywords: 1894000013, Canada, Canadian, labour history, labor history, work, worker, employees, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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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
Price £19.50.
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Caulton, T. J., ed.
Children of the Industrial Revolution in Sheffield:
(University of Sheffield, 1985).
Scarce. Based on a research project at the University of Sheffield Division of Continuing Education. Booklet. Very good. viii + 24pp. Order No. NSBK-A13329
Keywords: 0950660116, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Sheffield, Yorkshire, industrial revolution, history, social history, children, child, childhood, health, safety, working conditions, child labour, living conditions, work, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, child abuse, University of Sheffield Division of Continuing Education, booklet
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Goodman, Dave.
How the Old Age Pension was Won: the Forgotten Story. No Thanks to Lloyd George
(Third Age Press, 2nd edition, 1998).
Paperback. Very good. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A14082
Keywords: 1898576122, old age pension, pensions, history, Lloyd George, social security, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, National Insurance, politics, Labour movement, popular politics, aged, old, retirement
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Frow, R. & E. & Katanka, Michael.
Strikes: a Documentary History
(Charles Knight, 1971).
Scarce. Paperback. Soiled covers, internally good. xxx + 227pp. Order No. NSBK-A1234
Keywords: 0853141142, strike, blacklegs, unemployment, union, striker, protest, popular protest, work, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Wise, Nancy Baker and Wise, Christy.
A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II
(Jossey-Bass, 1994).
Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xvii + 283pp. Order No. NSBK-C12409
Keywords: 1555427030, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, work, workers, labour, labor
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Pinchbeck, Ivy.
Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750 - 1850:
(George Routledge, 1930).
Hardback. A little splitting / weakening internally at spine, edges slightly worn and cloth a little rubbed - otherwise a good copy. x + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-C9033
Keywords: B001P165SY, women workers, women and work, industry, industrialisation, Industrial Revolution, labour, working class, occupations, factories, mines, Ivy Pinchbeck, history, 18th century, eighteenth century, 19th century, nineteenth century, mining, hand loom weavers, domestic industries, trade, labor, labourers, textiles, women's history, factory, factories, economy, economic
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