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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Pratt, E.A.
Trade Unionism and British Industry: A Reprint of The Times Articles on The Crisis in British Industry, with an Introduction
(John Murray, 1904).
A Reprint of The Times Articles on The Crisis in British Industry, with an Introduction. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Coves slightly darkened with some wear to edges, otherwise good+. vii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A15139
Keywords: B001NK513C, trade unions, trade unionism, crisis of industry, the Times, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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West, Jackie, ed.
Work, Women and The Labour Market:
(RKP, 1982).
Paperback. Front cover creased, two small holes in front cover and through first few pages, otherwise good. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A10521
Keywords: 0710009704, women, women and work, women workers, women's studies, women's history, gender, employment, twentieth century, 20th, twentieth century, 20th, careers, labour, labor, sex, salary, salaries, wages, economy, economic, women's work, workplaces, USA, United States, US, feminism, feminists, occupations, occupational segregation, equal opportunities, equal rights, discrimination, capitalism, mothers, motherhood, manufacturing, clerical, local government, part-time, trade unions
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Barros, Mauricio Rands.
Labour Relations and the New Unionism in Contemporary Brazil:
(Macmillan, 1999).
St Antony's Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xx + 321pp. Order No. NSBK-A14061
Keywords: 0333736168, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, Brasilian, history, labour relations, new unionism, trade unionism, labour movement, citizenship, industrial relations, labor, unions, collective bargaining
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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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Clay, Henry.
The Post-War Unemployment Problem:
(Macmillan and Co, 1929).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. x + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A7184
Keywords: B00088OVSQ, post-war, unemployment, First World War, World War 1, World War I, World War One, work, industry, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th, deflation, industries, public enterprise, employment, employers, employees, workers, labour, labor
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Hammond, J.L. & Hammond, Barbara.
The Town Labourer:
(Longman, 1978).
Paperback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good. xlvii + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A7559
Keywords: 0582480817, Hammond, urban labourers, town, work, industry, employment, poor, poverty, unemployment, urbanisation, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history, town, towns, work, Britain, British, England, English, Hammonds, poor, factories, factory, factory system, power looms, industrial revolution, workers, class, working class, working classes, child labour, labour, labor, Lord Shaftesbury, trade unions, economic history, economy
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Joyce, Patrick.
Work, Society & Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England
(Rutgers UP, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light scuffing to back cover, otherwise very good+. xxv + 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A9036
Keywords: 081351083X, factory, factories, nineteenth century, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, social history, society, politics, class, paternalism, deference, labour, labor, 19th century, industry, factory system, Patrick Joyce, community, communities
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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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Kendall, Walter.
The Labour Movement in Europe:
(Allen Lane, rpt., 1975).
Paperback. Covers faded, page edges soiled, otherwise very good. xxi + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-A5979
Keywords: 0713904992, labor, labour, movement, Europe, European, history, politics, work, working, European Economic Community, EEC, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Industrial Revolution, France, French, German, Germany, Britain, British, Belgium, Belgian, Netherlands, Holland, Dutch, motor industry, trade unions, trade unionism, Italy, Italian, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century
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