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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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers Control
(Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1968).
Hardback. Good+ in chipped dustwrapper. ix + 161pp. Order No. NSBK-A12551
Keywords: 0901740888, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, reading, witmeses, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, work, workers, sex discrimination, labour market, employers, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th
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Leapman, Michael.
Kinnock:
(Unwin Hyman, 1987).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. xi + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-A11896
Keywords: 0044400063, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, politics, political, politicians, government, 20th, Neil Kinnock, Labour Party, Labour, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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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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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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Schreiner, Olive.
Woman and Labor:
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. A little creasing / rubbing to spine, otherwise very good. 283pp. Order No. NSBK-C1821
Keywords: 0860680460, Olive Schreiner, literature, women and work, labour, labor, feminism, feminist, history, equal rights, equal opportunities, Virago, Viragos
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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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Jones, Mervyn.
A Radical Life: The Biography of Megan Lloyd George, 1902-66
(Random Century, 1991).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xii + 340pp. Order No. NSBK-C9618
Keywords: 0091748291, Megan Lloyd George, twentieth century, Edwardian, biography, biographical, biographies, lives, Britain, British, England, English, women, Megan Lloyd George, Liberals, Liberal Party, women MPs, Members of Parliament, feminism, feminists, Frances Stevenson, Labour Party
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Hobbs, Margaret and Sangster Joan.
The Woman Worker, 1926-1929:
(Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999).
Paperback. Near fine. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A12324
Keywords: 1894000013, Canada, Canadian, labour history, labor history, work, worker, employees, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Petavel, J. W.
Administrative Efficiency and What it Might Give Us: Reduced Military Expenditure with Increased Army Reserves, and the Solution of the Problems of the Unemployed, of Rehousing, and of Technical Education
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1906).
The Towns of the Future and Self-Supporting Armies. Hardback. Pages browned and a little brittle with age. First page detached. Ex-library with usual lib stamps, in library binding. Good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-A13365
Keywords: B0006F9FZU, Edwardian, army, army reserves, militarism, military expenditure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unemployment, unemployed, rehousing, housing, technical education, administrative efficiency, conscription, social reform, houses, military, labour, land, towns, town planning
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