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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Wallas, Graham.
The Life of Francis Place, 1771-1854:
(George Allen and Unwin, rpt., 1918).
Hardback. Pages browned, covers worn, otherwise a good copy. xiv + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A10349
Keywords: B000HU8TTM, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation, working-class, classes, radicals, Britain, British, England, English, history, Francis Place, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, lives, eighteenth century, 18th
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Shaw, Jenny.
Intellectual Property, Representative Experience and Mass-Observation:
(Uni Sussex, 1998).
Booklet. Good. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-A5235
Keywords: 0850870402, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, working classes, working class, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, Occasional Papers, group experience, Jenny Shaw, groups, booklet
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Walker, Stephen and Barton, Len, eds.
Gender, Class & Education:
(Falmer Press, 1983).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, covers a little browned and spine faded, otherwise good+. xi + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-A14107
Keywords: 0905273419, gender, education, class, gender identity, teaching, social policy, schools, schooling, social classes, women's education, working classes, middle classes
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Checkland, S. G.
The Rise of Industrial Society in England, 1815-1885:
(Longman, 5th impress., 1971).
Social and Economic History of England Series. General Editor, Asa Briggs. Paperback. Tear to front cover, otherwise good. xiv + 471pp. Order No. NSBK-A5681
Keywords: 0582482399, England, English, history, Britain, British, industrial, industry, society, Victorian, nineteenth century, Regency, labor, labour, working class, working classes, urban
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Gregson, Nicky & Lowe, Michelle.
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain
(Routledge, 1994).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A1431
Keywords: 0415085314, domestic labour, class, gender, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, wages, nanny, nannies, servants, servant, maid servants, maid servants, cleaners, cleaner, home helps, gender relations, class, sociology, women, women and work
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Clark, Anna.
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
(Rivers Oram, 1995).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xv + 416pp. Order No. NSBK-C2179
Keywords: 9781854890757, gender, British, Britain, class, working class, marriage, courtship, Glasgow, Lancashire, London, factories, textiles, artisans, labour, labor, factory, social history
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Clark, Alice.
Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century:
(RKP, rpt, 1982).
Paperback. Covers edge worn and faded, otherwise good. xliii + 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C6631
Keywords: 0710090455, Alice Clark, seventeenth century, women, women and work, working women, capitalism, labouring women, class, wives, widows, mothers, midwives, midwife, social history, England, Britain, English, British, 17th century, midwifery
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Young, James D.
Women and Popular Struggles: A History of Scottish and English Working-Class Women, 1500-1984
(Mainstream, 1985).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 219pp. Order No. NSBK-C3995
Keywords: 9780906391594, Scotland, Scottish, Scots, English, England, Britain, British, women, woman, women's history, popular protest, Protestant sects, radical, miner's strike, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth century, struggle, class, working class, working-class, Calvinism, Calvinist, feminists, feminism, emancipation, women's movement
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Leventhal, F.M.
Respectable Radical: George Howell and Victorian Working-Class Politics
(Weid. & Nic., 1971).
Hardback. Very good in chipped & soiled dustwrapper. xv + 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A1321
Keywords: 0297002244, Victorian, politics, class, working-class, working class, George Howell, Howell, Britain, British, England, English, history, radical, radical politics, nineteenth century
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