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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Wootton, Graham.
Workers, Unions and the State:
(RKP, 1966).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. xi + 173 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A7961
Keywords: 0710034792, workers, trade unions, trade unionists, the State, politics, trade unionism, employees, employers, work, laboor, labor, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, factories, factory, civic
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Ranelagh, John.
CIA: A History
(BBC Books, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A5874
Keywords: 0563362502, CIA, C. I. A., Central Intelligence Agency, history, American, America, United States, USA, spies, spying, espionage, police, Nixon, Castro, coups, wars, twentieth centuru, investigations, Carter, Presidents, Reagan, Pax Americana, crime, criminals, international, secret service, Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt, Communism, Communists, Mussadegh, Iran, Bay of Pigs, Cuba, South Vietnam, Watergate, Nicaragua, Congress, USSR, Russia, nuclear, arms race, SALT, Cold War, politics
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Giles, Judy.
Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50:
(Macmillan, 1995).
Hardback. With a newspaper article pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-C15586
Keywords: 9780312126247, women, private life, domesticity, gender, identity, Britain, British, England, British, Judy Giles, suburbia, respectability, twentieth century, social history, oral history
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Pretty, David A.
The Rural Revolt that Failed: Farm Workers' Trade Unions in Wales, 1889-1950
(Cardiff UP, 1989).
Hardback. Fine. 291pp. Order No. NSBK-A11037
Keywords: 0708310249, Britain, British, history, United Kingdom, UK, Wales, Welsh, Welshmen, Welshman, farms, farming, farmers, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth, 20th, Labour Movement, rural, countryside, country
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Goldie, Grace Wyndham.
The Liverpool Repertory Theatre, 1911-1934:
(University of Liverpool Press, 1935).
Hardback. Piece missing at top of spine end, some fading/light marking to boards, otherwise good. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-A11163
Keywords: B00087QV9E, theatres, stage, plays, drama, literature, literary, actors, actresses, playwrights, writers, dramatic, theatrical, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Liverpool, Liverpudlian, Merseyside, Liverpool Repertory Theatre, twentieth century, 20th
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Palmer, George Herbert.
The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer:
(Houghton Mifflin, 1908).
Hardback. Fly leaf and title pages loose, otherwise a good copy in dark green/black leather binding. 354pp. Order No. NSBK-A9929
Keywords: B000JQOUBK, Alice Freeman Palmer, George Herbert Palmer, American, America, USA, United States, twentieth century, women's history, Alicia, Freeman Palmer, Victorian, nineteenth century, New York, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiography, education, educationalists, teaching, teachers, colleges, Wellseley, lives, life histories, life history
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Spurlock, John C and Magistro, Cynthia A.
New and Improved: The Transformation of American Women's Emotional Culture
(New York UP, 1998).
Hardback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 213pp. Order No. NSBK-C9702
Keywords: 0814780458, America, American, USA, United States, new woman, sexual revolution, women's movement, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, culture, emotional, marriage, companionship, career
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Joyce, David.
Hanging Baskets: Window Boxes and Containers
(Guild Publishing, 1991).
In Association with the Royal Horticultural Society. Hardback. Very good+ in very slightly chipped dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-G12269
Keywords: 1850292981, window boxes, horticulture, Royal Horticultural Society, gardens, gardening, flowers, flowering, containers, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, hanging baskets
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 28 Number 2
(Feminist Studies, Summer 2002).
Paperback. Near fine. 251-457pp. Order No. NSBK-C10087
Keywords: feminism, feminists, women, woman, gender, Volume 28, journals, twentieth century, 20th
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