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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Walkerdine, Valerie and Lucey, Helen.
Democracy in the Kitchen: Regulating Mothers and Socialising Daughters
(Virago, 1989).
Paperback. With a newspaper review and letter pasted to rear endpapers, otherwise good condition. vii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C15803
Keywords: 9781853810343, mothers, daughters, family, domesticity, class, gender, democracy
Price £11.99.
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Foot, Michael and Highet, Alison.
Isaac Foot: A Westcountry Boy - Apostle of England
(Politico's, 2006).
Hardback. Slight bump top spine end, otherwise very good+ and clean in dustwrapper. 352pp. Order No. NSBK-A15652
Keywords: 9781842751817, Isaac Foot, the Foot family, politics, class, Liberal Party, Liberals, Plymouth, methodism, Free Church, Bodmin, Second World War, history, West Country
Price £32.00.
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Shonfield, Zuzanna.
The Precariously Privileged: A Professional Family in Victorian London
(OUP, 1987).
Hardback. With newspaper cutting pasted to inside front cover, otherwise good in dustwrapper. ix + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C463
Keywords: 0192122657, class, professional, Victorian, London, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, middle class
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Ward, J.T.
Chartism:
(B. T. Batsford, 1973).
Paperback. Page edges and covers soiled, spine creased, a good working copy. 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A9633
Keywords: 0713413840, Chartism, Chartists, Victorian, radical, left, politics, political, working classes, working-class, working-class, Britain, British, England, English, history, Chartist movement
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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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Chapkis, Wendy.
Beauty and Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance
(The Women's Press, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9741
Keywords: 0704340895, women, women's history, politics, political appearance, faces, make up, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, dress, ugliness, ugly, beautiful, skin
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Jones, David.
Chartism and the Chartists:
(Allen Lane, 1975).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise good. 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A1536
Keywords: 0713909226, Chartism, Chartists, Chartist movement, history, radicalism, universal male suffrage, British radicals, radicalism, England, English, Britain, class, labour, nineteenth century, 19th century
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Stewart, Angus, ed.
Contemporary Britain:
(RKP, 1983).
Paperback. Spine creased, covers edge worn, otherwise good. ix + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A11311
Keywords: 071009406X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social welfare, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political, social, race relations, middle class
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Glass, David, ed.
Social Mobility in Britain:
(RKP, 1954).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Cloth worn espec at edges, otherwise a good working copy. viii + 412pp. Order No. NSBK-A527
Keywords: B0010XSGM0, class, classes, class structure, social mobility, status, occupations, sociology
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