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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Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, .
Education and Training for the Cotton and Rayon Industry: Papers and Dicussions at a Conference in Manchester in September 1946 Organized by the Cotton Board With the Collaboration of the British Rayon Federation, the Textile Institute and the Textile Teachers' Association
(Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, 1946).
A series of essays from different contributors. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly browned, edge worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7704
Keywords: post war, post-war industry, cotton, textiles, rayon, training, industries, textile, Britain, British, England, English, Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Department, industrial training, production, technical colleges, teach, teachers, teaching, technical education, history
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Women's Freedom League, .
Report of the Annual Conference, February 1908: and Balance Sheet, Oct. - Dec. 1907
(Portrayer, 2002 facs. of 1908 text).
Number 2 in the Open Archive Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-C5190
Keywords: 0954263251, woman suffrage, suffragettes, women's suffrage, Britain, British, England, English, Votes for Women, enfranchisement, Portrayer, Open Archive Series, women's movement, politics, Edwardian, twentieth century, Women's Freedom League, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, conference, conferences, Cicely Hamilton, Teresa Billington-Greig, Charlotte Despard, reports, documents, sources, protest, social protest, booklet
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Royal Commission Historical Monuments, .
Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Buckinghamshire
(HMSO, 1986).
Paperback. Small sticker mark on front cover, otherwise very good. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-A3384
Keywords: 0113000065, nonconformity, nonconformist, chapels, Dissent, meeting-houses, Buckinghamshire, English heritage, British, Britain, England, religion, Bethels, Georgian, Christopher Stell, buildings, architecture, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, religion
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Dale Women's Institute, .
Dale: An Illustrated History
(Dale Women's Institute, Pennsylvania, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A9821
Keywords: 095386930X, Dale, Wales, Welsh, Dale Women's Institute, Britain, British, history, community, communities
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Department of Employment, .
Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work: 1st April 1971
(HMSO, 1971).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some creasing to front cover, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A14182
Keywords: 0113603738, wages, hours, work, time rates, employment, 1970s, seventies, manufacturing, industry, economy, textiles, factories, factory, engineering, social history, pay
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Boxer, Marilyn Jacoby.
When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America
(The Johns Hopkins UP, 1998).
Hardback. Fine. xix + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C11265
Keywords: 0801858348, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th
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Newton, J. L; Ryan, Mary P. & Walkowitz, J., eds.
Sex and Class in Women's History:
(RKP, 1983).
History Workshop Series. Essays. Paperback. Spine faded, light soiling to back cover, otherwise good. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A7884
Keywords: 0710095295, sex, class, women's history, Judith R. Walkowitz, Mary P. Ryan, Judith L. Newton, Leonore Davidoff, gender, feminism, family
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Watkins, Charles, ed.
Rights of Way: Policy, Culture and Management
(Pinter, 1996).
Rural Studies Series. Hardback. Very good+. xiii + 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A13534
Keywords: 1855673908, walking, roaming, rights of way, policy, culture, management
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Holcombe, Lee.
Victorian Ladies at Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850 - 1914
(David and Charles, 1973).
Hardback. Minor pencil annotation and with newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise good+ in chipped / faded / rubbed dustwrapper. x + 253pp. Order No. NSBK-C10502
Keywords: 9780715364116, women and work, women's history, working women, feminism, Victorian, middle class, Britain, England, British, English, history, Wales, Welsh
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