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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Mearns, Andrew.
The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: With leading articles from the Pall Mall Gazette of October 1883 and articles by Lord Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain and Forster Crozier
(Humanities Press, Leicester University Press, 1970).
Edited and with an introduction by Anthony S. Wohl. Hardback. Very good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-A6676
Keywords: 9780718550035, Bitter Cry of Outcast London, Andrew Mearns, Lord Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain, Forster Crozier, social history, Anthony S. Wohl, poverty, urban history, London, metropolitan, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, Pall Mall Gazette, Methodism, Methodists, artisans' dwellings, housing, social conditions, living conditions, labour, labor, labourers, laborers, the poor, pauperism
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Watkins, Micky.
Henrietta Barnett in Whitechapel: Her First Fifty Years
(Micky Watkins, 2005).
Paperback. Very good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C15630
Keywords: 9780954979805, Henrietta Barnett, Octavia Hill, social history, housing, biography, slums, garden suburbs, garden cities
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Myrdal, Gunnar.
The Cost of Living in Sweden, 1830 - 1930:
(P. S. King, 1933).
Assisted by Sven Bouvin. Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stockholm. Hardback. Page edges foxed. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Some scuffing to cloth, and a little splitting externally to spine. Otherwise a good, solid, firm copy. x + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A13356
Keywords: B000H47BVU, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish, economy, economic, cost of living, 19th century, twentieth century, prices, wages, budgets, clothing, housing, history
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
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Mama, Amina.
The Hidden Struggle: Statutory and Voluntary Sector Responses to Violence Against Black Women in the Home
(London Race and Housing Research Unit, 1989).
Paperback. Very good condition. xvi + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-C15789
Keywords: 9780951483329, London Race and Housing Research Unit, race, ethnicity, black women, domestic violence, abuse
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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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Rossiter, Jenny.
Nobler and Better Things: Octavia Hill's Life and Work
(Octavia, 2012).
Paperback. Light edgewear, otherwise very good. 66pp. Order No. NSBK-C15628
Keywords: 9780957307308, Octavia Hill, booklets, housing, urban, open spaces, Victorian, London, slums, social history, women's history
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Lyster, Robert A.
A First Course in Hygiene:
(University Tutorial Press, rpt, 1946).
Hardback. Blue cloth darkened and marked in places, corners worn, otherwise good. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A6371
Keywords: health, hygiene, social welfare, social hygiene, history, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, Robert A. Lyster, body, ventilation, text books, foods, digestion, cooking, nervous system, dwellings, housing, heating, water supply, diseases, infection, houses, diets
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Aronson, Hugh.
Our Village Homes: Present Conditions and Suggested Remedies
(Thomas Murby, 1913).
With a preface by Lord Henry Bentinck. Hardback. Cloth rather soiled, some rubbing / fraying to extremities, otherwise a good solid copy. x + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13844
Keywords: B001IVIPUM, villages, village, history, town planning, housing, houses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing schemes, social history, housing conditions, homes, rural areas, countryside, health, rural depopulation, agriculture, labourers' cottages, cottage, Hugh Aronson, social conditions, architecture, house building
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