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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Guy, Donna J.
White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health and Progress in Latin America
(Nebraska UP, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-C9661
Keywords: 080327095X, women, woman, women's studies, twentieth century, feminism, feminists, sexual difference, femininity, gender, history of ideas, health, public health, Latin America, South American, white slavery
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Snowden, Philip.
The Living Wage:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1912).
Hardback. Bright red boards slightly blotched / soiled at back, otherwise very good. xvi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13340
Keywords: B00085I7GG, Philip Snowden, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, living wage, wages, economy, politics, living wage, poverty, cost of living, industry, employment, strikes, conciliation, labour, twentieth century, before the first world war, economics
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Robins, Elizabeth.
Where are you Going to?:
(William Heinemann, 2nd impress., 1913).
Scarce, collectable. Hardback. Some white moulding to board edges and light marking to board faces, otherwise a good, firm copy. vi + 312pp. Order No. NSBK-C9864
Keywords: B000KT6EJM, Elizabeth Robins, women's suffrage, woman suffrage, women writers, Where Are You Going To, fiction, suffragettes, acting, actresses, novels, novelists, theatre, collectible, antiquarian, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, Social and Political Union, actresses, actresss, theatre, drama, plays, novelists, feminists, actors, literature, original suffragette ephemera
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Crosby, Alan G.
A Society with No Equal: The Chetham Society, 1843-1993
(Chetham Society, 1993).
Hardback. Very good. ix + 86pp. Order No. NSBK-A13577
Keywords: 1859360017, Chetham Society, Manchester, society, societies, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Ostroff, Eugene.
Photographing The Frontier:
(Smithsonian Institution, 1976).
An exhibition researched and organized by Eugene Ostroff, Curator of Photography, National Museum of History and Technology. Developed and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1975-1978. Booklet. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A11145
Keywords: B000GKEHS0, photography, photographic, photos, cameras, frontier,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th, booklet
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Bruce, Colin John.
War on the Ground: 1939-1945
(Constable, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in slightly creased dustwrapper. 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A9380
Keywords: 0094724903, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, army, armies, guns, military, navy, RAF
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Preston, Robert.
Days at the Coast:
(Richard Stenlake, 1994).
Richly illustrated with black and white photographs. Paperback. Good+. 100pp. Order No. NSBK-A12656
Keywords: 1872074421, coast, seaside, resorts, coastal, photographs, photography, Edwardian, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th
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Seear, B.N.
Re-Entry of Women to the Labour Market After An Interruption in Employment:
(Organsiation for Economic Co-op & Dev, 1971).
Employment of Special Groups 7. Paperback. Spine slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 135pp. Order No. NSBK-C11411
Keywords: B0006CXI3I, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women and work, women's work, labour, labor, labour market, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, employment, employers, employees, twentieth century, 20th
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Brown, T. Nigel L.
The History of the Manchester Geographical Society, 1884-1950:
(MUP, 1971).
Paperback. Card covers soiled, otherwise good. 102pp. Order No. NSBK-A5885
Keywords: 0719012511, may be unavailable, Manchester Geographical Society, societies, organisations, associations, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, T. Nigel l. Brown, colonialism, colonisation, Africa, African, geography, travel, travellers, travelers, North-West, North West, Royal Geographical Society, Eli Sowerbutts, Harry Sowerbutts, T. W. Sowerbutts, Arthur Marshman
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