Allen, Sheila and Wolkowitz, Carol.
Homeworking: Myths and Realities
(Macmillan, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. x + 225pp. Order No. NSBK-A8666
Keywords: 033342364X, homeworking, women workers, domestic economy, hidden workforce, gender, casual labour, labor, twentieth century, women and work, sociology
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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
Price £24.00.
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Uyeda, Teijiro.
Japanese Economic History, 1930 - 1960: The Small Industries of Japan: Their Growth and Development. Volume X
(Routledge, rpt, 2002).
Selected and with a new introduction by Janet Hunter. Hardback. A little thumbing to otherwise clean, bright cloth. Minor bumping to corners, otherwise very good. xxii + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-A13395
Keywords: 041521825X, Japan, Japanese, economy, economic, history, twentieth century, industry, industrial, trade, small industries, textiles, cotton, wool, rayon, wages, bicycle industry, rubber, labour, labor
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Rendall, Jane.
Women in an Industrialising Society, 1750-1880:
(Blackwell, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, otherwise very good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C7322
Keywords: 9780631153030, Jane Rendall, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, women, woman, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 18th, 19th, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, work, employment, labor, labour, domestic, domesticity, economics, economy, economic, women and work
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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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Holland, Eric G.
Coniston Copper: a History
(Cicerone Press, 1987).
Inscribed by the author on the fly leaf. Hardback. Very good+ in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 312pp. Order No. NSBK-A13441
Keywords: 0902363425, copper, Coniston, copper mining, mines, miners, Lake District, Lakes, Lake Counties, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, John Barratt, Thomas Wynne, Thomas Warsop, Cumbrian, Cumbria, work, industry, employment, labour, 19th century, Victorian, nineteenth century
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Mayhew, Henry.
Mayhew's Characters:
(Spring Books, 1967).
Edited with a note on the English character by Peter Quennell. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper which is rather torn and tatty at edges. xix + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A5010
Keywords: B0000CNF5P, Henry Mayhew, nineteenth century, Victorian, povery, poor, London, oral history, Britain, British, England, english, interviews, people, popular, working-class, working class, work, labor, labour, mayhew's characters, mayhew's, mayhew, characters
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Brown, David.
Blip: A Personal History of Huntingdon Town Council 1995-1999
(David Brown, Huntingdon, 1999).
Paperback. Fine. xv + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A14343
Keywords: 0953776204, town councils, town council, Huntingdon, history, local politics, local government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Labour, Cambridgeshire
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Flanders, Allan.
Trade Unions:
(Hutchinson, rpt, 1967).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A3775
Keywords: 0090455614, trade unionism, trade unions, labour, industry, England, English, Britain, British, Trade Union Congress, collective bargaining, wages, employment, working conditions, class
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Conway, Edward S.
Post-war Employment:
(Jonathan Cape, 1943).
Hardback. Spine faded, corners bumped. Ex library with minimal library stamps, otherwise good. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-A13925
Keywords: B000WULES0, employment, work, post war, post-war, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ex-service men, army, training, youth, unemployed, unemployment, labour, demobilisation, demobilization
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