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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Bradley, Harriet.
Men's Work: Women's Work:
(Polity Press, 1989).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, light staining to page edges, otherwise good +. vii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C9413
Keywords: 0745601626, women, work, women's work, women and work, men's work, industry, sexual division of labour, labour, labor, gender, inequality, equality, agriculture, nursing, shopwork, hosiery, job segregation, Industrial Revolution, nineteenth century, twentieth century, eighteenth cnetury
Price £9.50.
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Hawkins, Kevin.
British Industrial Relations, 1945-1975:
(Barrie and Jenkins, 1976).
Hardback. Good with very minor ink annotation. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A9909
Keywords: 0214202739, Britain, British, twentieth century, post war, trade unions, trade unionists, labour, labor, work, wages
Price £3.00.
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Mackie, Lindsay and Pattullo, Polly.
Women at Work:
(Tavistock Studies, 1977).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+ with newspaper cuttings pasted inside. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C10190
Keywords: 0422759902, women, women's work, women workers, women and work, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th, labour, labor, domesticity, trade unions, housework, children, jobs, employment, equal pay
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Parr, Joy.
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Scarce. Hardback. Good condition, in faded and lightly soiled dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A3988
Keywords: 0773505172, immigrants, apprentices, apprenticeship, Canada, Canadian history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, emigrants, emigration, child, children, childhood, labor, labour, adoption, philanthropy, philanthropic, agricultural, domestic service, domestic servants, Evangelicals, migration
Price £11.99.
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Wootton, Graham.
Workers, Unions and the State:
(RKP, 1966).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. xi + 173 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A7961
Keywords: 0710034792, workers, trade unions, trade unionists, the State, politics, trade unionism, employees, employers, work, laboor, labor, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, factories, factory, civic
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Melosh, Barbara, ed.
Gender and American History, since 1890:
(Routledge, 1993).
Paperback. Some creasing to spine, otherwise a good copy. xii + 308pp. Order No. NSBK-C9430
Keywords: 0415076765, gender, American, USA, United States, history, Victorian, twentieth century, nineteenth century, sexuality, consumption, social welfare, Ida B. Wells, labor, labour, anti-lynching
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Neff, Wanda F.
Victorian Working Women: an Historical and Literary Study of Women in British Industries and Professions, 1832-1850
(George Allen, 1929).
Hardback. Spine faded, light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-C4538
Keywords: B000GR10JW, women and work, work, woman, women, history, industry, industrial, Industrial Revolution, working, factory, factories, Britain, British, England, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, textiles, textile, mills, cotton, governess, governesses, professions, professional, dressmaker, dressmakers, frame-knitters, knitting, labour, labor, economic
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Gray, Robert Q.
The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh:
(Clarendon Press, 1976).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in faded dustwrapper. ix + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A9278
Keywords: 0198224427, labour, labor, aristocracy, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, Scotland, Scottish, Scotch, Britain, British, working class, working-class
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Adnett, Nick.
Labour Market Policy:
(Longman Group, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A7873
Keywords: 0582009626, twentieth century, economy, economics, labour, labor, market policy, labour market policy, neoclassical models, labour mobility, migration, employment, unemployment, Britain, British, England, English
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