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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Pennington, Shelley & Westover, Belinda.
A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850 - 1985
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in browned dustwrapper. xi + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C15640
Keywords: 9780333432969, homeworker, labour work, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, workforce, domestic, domesticity, working women, pennington, westover, sweated labour, housework, tailoring, tailor, tailoring industry, 19th century
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Thompson, Laurence.
The Enthusiasts: A Biography of John and Katharine Bruce Glasier
(Victor Gollancz, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in rubbed and faded dustrwapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A312
Keywords: 9780575006553, John Bruce Glasier, Katharine Bruce Glasier, socialism, biography, biographies, labour movement, labor, socialists, history, Scotland, Scottish, ILP, Independent Labour Party, Britain, British, nineteenth century, twentieth century, poltics, political, Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald
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Berry, Mary Frances.
Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution
(Indiana UP, 1986).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dw. ix + 142pp. Order No. NSBK-C6126
Keywords: 0253365376, ERA, women's rights, politics, USA, America, American, USA, United States, women's history, women's movement, Constitution, suffrage, social reform, congress, Equal Rights Amendment, black history, Civil rights, child labour, labor, woman suffrage
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Bieler, Andreas.
The Struggle for a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Critical Labour Movement Studies. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A14634
Keywords: 9780719072529, Critical Labour Movement Studies, Europe, European, trade unions, trade unionism, history, EMU, global restructuring, labour, Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, industrial relations
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Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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Mathias, Peter and Davis, John A. eds.
The First Industrial Revolutions:
(Basil Blackwell, rpt., 1990).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. viii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A8848
Keywords: 0631160396, industrial, Industrial Revolutions, technology, labour, labor, enterprise, agriculture, transport, agriculture, population
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Floud, Roderick and McCloskey, Donald, eds.
The Economic History of Britain Since 1700:
(CUP, rpt, 1984).
Volume I only, 1700 - 1860. Paperback. Light creasing & yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. xv + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-A8899
Keywords: 0521298423, economy, economics, Roderick Floud, Donald McCloskey, history, labour, labor, labour supply, population, 18th century, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, demography, trade, empire, capital, capital accumulation, agriculture, industrial revolution, technology, technical progress, Britain, British, England, English
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DeVault, Ileen A.
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
(Cornell University Press, rpt, 1995).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 194pp. Order No. NSBK-A14157
Keywords: 0801483077, Pittsburgh, clerical work, class, white collar labour, workers, clerical jobs, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, offices, office workers, twentieth century, careers, skilled workers, women, female
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Symes, R. A.
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries:
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A15528
Keywords: 9781473862944, social history, geneaology, family trees, women, men, Empire, birth certificates, geneaology, marriage, death, mortality, fertility, diaries, passenger lists, labour, censuses, emigration, family relationships
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