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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Read, Donald and Glasgow, Eric.
Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist
(Edward Arnold, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, light sellotape marks to cloth, otherwise good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A10350
Keywords: B0000CKYZG, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation, working-class, classes, radicals, Irish, Irishman, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, lives, eighteenth century, 18th
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Glass, David, ed.
Social Mobility in Britain:
(RKP, 1954).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Cloth worn espec at edges, otherwise a good working copy. viii + 412pp. Order No. NSBK-A527
Keywords: B0010XSGM0, class, classes, class structure, social mobility, status, occupations, sociology
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Humphries, Stephen.
Hooligans or Rebels: An Oral History of Working-Class Childhood and Youth,1889-1939
(Basil Blackwell, 1981).
Hardback. Papers and newspapers pasted to inside covers, otherwise very good+ in dustwrapper. viii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A13607
Keywords: oral, oral hisotory, working class, working-class, working classes, children, child, childhood, youth, hooligans, rebels, Stephen Humphries, teenagers, teenage gangs, vandalism, anarchy, oral tradition, spoken, twentieth century, education
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England, Joe, editor.
Changing Lives: Workers' Education in Wales, 1907 - 2007
(Welsh People's History Society, 2007).
Paperback. Very good+. vi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A14197
Keywords: B001SGXJE4, Wales, Welsh, history, education, twentieth century, schools, WEA, working classes, adult education, workers, Workers' Educational Association
Price £19.50.
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Gash, Norman.
Aristocracy and People: Britain, 1815 - 1865
(Arnold, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good+. 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A7498
Keywords: 0713161604, Norman Gash, aristocracy, class, classes, nineteeth century, text books, Victorian, 19th century, history, politics, social change, industry, industrial, constitution, government, Britain, British, England, English
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Thompson, E.P. and Yeo, Eileen.
The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the "Morning Chronicle" 1849 - 50
(Penguin, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light creasing to spine, covers slightly yellowed. Newspaper review pasted to inside of cover, else good. 592pp. Order No. NSBK-A14943
Keywords: 0140432302, Henry Mayhew, Morning Chronicle, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, social investigations, poor, poverty, London, working class, working-class, classes, trades
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Mabey, Richard, ed.
Class: a Symposium
(Anthony Blond, 1967).
Paperback. Good. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A1136
Keywords: 0218514557, class, classes
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Unesco, .
Bibliographic Guide to Studies on the Status of Women: Development and Population Trends
(Unesco, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good in creased dustwrapper. xii + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A7767
Keywords: 9231021222, women, women's history, woman, female, bibliography, biobliographies, bibliographic, reference, status, class, classes, population, demography, demographic
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Prandy, K., Stewart, A. and Blackburn, R. M.
White-Collar Unionism:
(Macmillan, 1983).
Cambridge Studies in Sociology. Paperback. Very good. viii + 172pp. Order No. NSBK-A11338
Keywords: 0333328906, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, white-collar work, white collar unionism, class, classes, class system, twentieth century, 20th, staff associations
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