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
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Frow, R. & E. & Katanka, Michael.
Strikes: a Documentary History
(Charles Knight, 1971).
Scarce. Paperback. Soiled covers, internally good. xxx + 227pp. Order No. NSBK-A1234
Keywords: 0853141142, strike, blacklegs, unemployment, union, striker, protest, popular protest, work, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Blaxall, Martha and Reagan, Barbara, eds.
Women and the Workplace: The Implications of Occupational Segregation
(Chicago UP, 1976).
Paperback. Covers very lightly soiled, otherwise very good. x + 326pp. Order No. NSBK-C10518
Keywords: 0226058220, women, women and work, women workers, women's studies, women's history, gender, employment, twentieth century, 20th, twentieth century, 20th, careers, labour, labor, sex, salary, salaries, wages, economy, economic, women's work, workplaces, USA, United States, US, feminism, feminists, occupations, occupational segregation, equal opportunities, equal rights, discrimination
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Allen, G.C.
The Structure of Industry in Britain: A Study in Economic Change
(Longman, 3rd edit., 1972).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, otherwise good. viii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A10075
Keywords: industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Britain, British, history, England, English, labour, labor, labour organisation, economics, economic, twentieth century, twentieth, Allen
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McFeely, Mary Drake.
Women's Work in Britain and America from the Nineties to World War I: An Annotated Bibliography
(G.K. Hall, 1982).
Hardback. Near fine. xxv + 140pp. Order No. NSBK-C10513
Keywords: 0816185042, Britain, British, England, English, history, work, women's work, women and work, labour, labor, gender, employment, America, American, USA, United States, US, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 20th, bibliography, bibliographies, Edwardians
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Drake, Barbara.
Women in Trade Unions:
(Virago, 1984 rpt of 1920 ed.).
Intro by Branson. With folding tables. Now out-of-print again. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. xiv + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-C393
Keywords: 0860684059, Virago, trade union, trade unions, trade unionism, labour, labor, labour history, labor history, Left, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, work, workers, working women, skilled labour, unskilled labour, TUC, Women's Trade Union League
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Showler, Brian & Sinfield, Adrian, eds.
The Workless State: Studies in Unemployment
(Martin Robertson, 1981).
Foreword by Peter Townsend. Paperback. Spine creased, light soiling to edges, otherwise good. xvii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A6512
Keywords: 0855203404, unemployment, employment, work, labor, labour, twentieth century, poverty, men, politics, political economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, Keynes, government, society, tax, taxation, history
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Shuttleworth, J.K.
Thoughts and Suggestions on Certain Social Problems: Contained Chiefly in Addresses to Meetings of Workmen in Lancashire
(E.J. Morten, 1973 rpt of 1873 text).
Hardback. Back cover board slightly marked, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A964
Keywords: 0901598739, Lancashire, social problems, workmen, labour, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, James Kay Shuttleworth
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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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Taymor, Betty.
Running Against the Wind: The Struggle of Women in Massachusetts Politics
(Northeastern University Press, 2000).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xiii + 218pp. Order No. NSBK-C8756
Keywords: 155553435X, Massachusetts, politics, political, women, women's politics, Boston, USA, American, America, United States of America, gender, Democrats, party politics, Betty Taymor
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