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
Price £7.50.
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Stephens, Mark.
Roots of Power: 150 Years of British Trade Unions, A Personal View
(SPA books, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-A9484
Keywords: 0907590063, trade unions, trade unionism, power, Trades Union Congress, miners, mining, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Great Dock Strike, strikes, Labour Representation Committee, the Trades Disputes Act, The First Great Membership Explosion, the Second Great Membership Explosion
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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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Matthews, Mike.
Alf Cobb: Mugsborough Rebel. The Struggle for Justice in Edwardian Hastings
(Hastings Press, rpt, 2003).
Paperback. Fine. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-A6675
Keywords: 190410911X, Hastings, history, social history, Sussex, Britain, British, England, English, Alf Cobb, Robert Tressell, Social Democratic Federation, socialist, socialists, socialism, mob orators, rebels, Mugsborough, working class, working classes, political rebels, radicalism, Edwardian, twentieth century, labour movement, politics, local politics, local government, oratory, local councils, local corporations, local councillors
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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
Price £5.50.
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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
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Maccoby, S.
English Radicalism: the End?
(George Allen Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, dustwrapper browned, soiled and chipped, otherwise good. 640pp. Order No. NSBK-A14583
Keywords: B001CEIN5C, work, industry, radicals, radicalism, twentieth century, protests, Dr Maccoby, popular, propaganda, class, Lloyd George, Labour, General Strike, Asquith, social reform, First World War
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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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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
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Kelley, Kitty.
Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography
(Bantam Press, 1991).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. xix + 532pp. Order No. NSBK-E3335
Keywords: 0593024508, biography, Nancy Reagan, women's history, America, American history, Republican party, United States, USA, Reagan administration, 1980s, President, Presidency
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