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
Price £24.00.
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Poor Law Commissioners, .
Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners: on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture, 1843
(Frank Cass, 1968 impression of 1843 text).
Hardback. Some pencil annotation mainly to endpapers, front endpaper has small piece cut-out, otherwise good+, a solid copy. 378pp. Order No. NSBK-C15750
Keywords: 9780714622149, poor law, poverty, reports, commissioners, women, children, history, agriculture, agricultural, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, work, employment
Price £28.95.
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 3
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine lightly browned, otherwise very good. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13116
Keywords: 0904573222, Victorian, 1850, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, work, thieves, theft, robbery, London, tramps, vagrancy, lodging houses, housing, food, earnings, child labour, boot and shoe trade, beggars, asylums, clothes, boot and shoe makers
Price £19.95.
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Gostelow, Mary.
The Coats Book of Embroidery:
(David and Charles, 3rd impress., 1979).
With over 800 line illustrations by the author. Colour photographs by Martin F. Gostelow. Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise very good+ in dustwrapper. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-G10523
Keywords: 0715376144, crafts, embroidery, embroiderers, needlework, sewing, stitching, stitches, needlepoint, canvas work, crafts, Britain, British, England, English, history, assissi work, Applique, Bargello, Blackwork, Hardanger, patchwork, stitchwork, fabrics, threads
Price £8.00.
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Watts, John I.
The First Fifty Years of Brunner, Mond & Co, 1873 - 1923:
(Brunner, Mond & Co., 1923).
Hardback. Original boards slightly worn / rubbed, light soiling to spine, otherwise a good, solid copy. 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A14710
Keywords: B0000EEHSY, business, industry, Northwich, Brunner, Mond, soda, ammonia, salt, Cheshire, brine, companies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, works, Winnington, Middlewich, Sandbach, workers, employment, chemical industry, chemicals
Price £30.00.
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Sambrook, Pamela.
Laundry Bygones:
(Shire, 1983).
Paperback. Vert good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15500
Keywords: 0852636482, laundry, washing, clothes, women's work, women, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £3.00.
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Lawrence, Elizabeth.
Gender and Trade Unions:
(Taylor & Francis, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-C4214
Keywords: 0748401474, gender, trade unions, trade unionism, sociology, women, trade union, work, industry, twentieth century, feminism, Britain, British, England, English, shop stewards, NALGO
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National Research Council, .
Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment
(National Academy Press, 1986).
Volume 1. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14140
Keywords: 0309036887, work, women and work, employment, workers, computers, technology, labour, labor, female, clerical work, white collar, Louise A. Tilly
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Wilson, S.J.
Women, the Family and the Economy:
(McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 2nd edit., 1981).
Paperback. Covers slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 194pp. Order No. NSBK-C10517
Keywords: 0075488353, women, women and work, women workers, women's studies, women's history, gender, employment, Britain, British, twentieth century, 20th, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, careers, labour, labor, sex, salary, salaries, wages, economy, economic, women's work, family, families
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Tillyard, Frank.
Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain, 1911 - 48:
(Thames Bank Pub. Co, 1949).
Hardback. Very good in chipped, slightly browned dustwrapper. ix + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A13287
Keywords: B001IVGWXE, unemployment, insurance, national insurance, dole, twentieth century, inter-war, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, contributions, benefits, social welfare, poor relief, out-of-work, history
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