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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Goodman, Arnold.
Tell Them I'm On My Way: Memoirs
(Chapmans, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library, well used/thumbed, but good in creased dustwrapper. xiii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A2745
Keywords: 1855926369, lawyer, Fleet Street, Harold Wilson, politics, Labour Party, Barbara Castle, British Steel, Arnold Goodman, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Bohm-Duchen, Monica.
Arnold Daghani:
(Diptych, 1987).
Paperback. Good. 120pp. Order No. NSBK-J13908
Keywords: 1870627008, Arnold Daghani, art, labour camps, artists, Sussex, Jewish, pictures, paintings
Price £14.99.
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Kirkby, Diane.
The Power of Pen and Voice: The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer
(CUP, 1991).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. xxvi + 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A12390
Keywords: 0521391024, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Australia, Australian, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, twentieth century, 20th, writers, writing, labour reformer, labor, Alice Henry, social welfare
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Royal Commission on Equal Pay, .
Royal Commission on Equal Pay: 1944 - 46 Report
(HMSO, 1946).
Important source material on the gender division of labour in the 1940s. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some damage to binding at spine ends, (front cover detached by 2 inches at top), otherwise good. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A7688
Keywords: equal pay, pay, employment, Royal Commission on Equal Pay, reports, gender, gender division of labour, labour, history, labor, industry, industries, women, men, workers, teaching, public service, local government, employees, wages, economy, economic, professions, law, period sources, jobs, occupations, booklet
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Savage, Mike and Witz, Anne, eds.
Gender and Bureaucracy:
(Blackwells, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. 282pp. Order No. NSBK-A14116
Keywords: 0631185283, Mike Savage, Anne Witz, sociology, gender relations, labour, bureaucracy, finance, organisations, institutions
Price £28.50.
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Pond, Chris.
Trouble in Store: A Study of Shopwork and Low Pay
(Low Pay Unit, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good. 57pp. Order No. NSBK-A11170
Keywords: B000HC5H36, low pay, economy, economics, wages, work, labor, labour, employees, money, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, shopwork, shops, pay, clothing shops, Cambridge, minimum wages, overtime, stores
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Herzog, Marianne.
From Hand to Mouth: Women and Piecework
(Penguin, rpt., 1980).
Paperback. Good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-C4791
Keywords: 0140220895, women, women and work, history, women's history, German, Germany, Europe, European, West Germany, Philips, Siemens, piecework, wages, unemployment, employment, jobs, factory work, industry, industries, industrial, labor, labour, labor market, labour market. twentieth century
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Eales, Jacqueline.
Women in Early Modern England, 1500-1700:
(UCL Press, 1998).
Paperback. Card covers slightly faded / creased, otherwise very good. viii + 133pp. Order No. NSBK-C3928
Keywords: 9781857282689, women, history, early modern, England, Britain, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, gender, British, English, family, work, working, labour, labor
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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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