Townsend, Colin & Eileen.
War Wives: a Second World War Anthology
(Leisure Circle, Grafton Books, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in slightly marked dustwrapper. xvi + 297pp. Order No. NSBK-C4844
Keywords: 0246133880, war, Second World War, World War II, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, wives, wife, marriage, marriages, weddings, wedding, oral history, domesticity, housewives, home front
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Porter, Susan L. ed.
Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
(Mass UP, 1996).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C8449
Keywords: 1558490051, women, woman, women's history, Commonwealth, American, USA, United States, family, children, social changes, nineteenth century, Victorian, womanhood, gender, ethnicity, race, class, jobs, employment, employees, employers, families, sisterhood, women's studies, Massachusetts, Boston, Bostonians
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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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Cashmore, E. Ellis and Troyna, Barry.
Introduction to Race Relations:
(RKP, 1983).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, light edge wear, otherwise good. vi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A15021
Keywords: 0710099304, racism, race, ethnicity, race relations, immigration
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Singh, B. P.
The Problem of Change: A Study of North-East India
(OUP, 1987).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good + in dustwrapper. xii + 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A7919
Keywords: 0195620526, North-East India, Asia, Asian, Indian, change, independence, ethnic, ethnicity, Scheduled Tribes, Administrative Service, Indians, Jawaharlal Nehru
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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Greene, Lorenzo J and Woodson, Carter G.
The Negro Wage Earner:
(Russell and Russell, rpt., 1969).
Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped. xiii + 388pp. Order No. NSBK-A11868
Keywords: 0404001637, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, black history, Black, ethnicity, twentieth century, wages, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, pay
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Anon, .
Every Woman's Book of Home-making Home Making:
(The Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1940 (?)).
First edition. Hardback. Edges slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C13375
Keywords: B000VJKA4G, every woman, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, homemaking, domestic, domesticity, housewives, housewife, housewifery, filed with the An's (purple cloth spine with no titles), home-making, home making, filed under A horizontal
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Moat, Florence and Sumner, Josephine.
The Concise Series of Practical Housecraft: I. Housewifery
(Longmans, Green, 1925).
Paperback. Original covers browned, spotted and worn. Spine split, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15120
Keywords: B00174ZJ6I, booklets, booklet, housewifery, domesticity, history, antiquarian, domestic, Florence Moat, housework, housewives, washing, cleaning, shopping, interwar, inter-war
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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