Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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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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Huggett, Frank E.
The Coal Miner:
(The Educational Supply Association, 1955).
People's Jobs. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine worn, ink stain to one page, a working copy. 89pp. Order No. NSBK-J11333
Keywords: B0000CJ5H8, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, labour, labor, work, miners, pitmen, coal, mines, pits, collieries, colliery, jobs, employment, twentieth century, 20th, mining
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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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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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Heinemann, Margot.
Wages Front:
(Lawrence & Wishart, 1947).
Hardback. Very good in foxed, browned & slightly chipped dustwrapper. xii + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A5507
Keywords: B0006ARPZ2, Margot Heinemann, post war, post-war, postwar, Labour Research Department, economy, economic, history, wages, earnings, wage, income, Britain, British, England, English, wage-earners, labour, labor, minimum wage, skilled, unskilled, cost of living, low wages, economic recovery, reconstruction
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Thornton, William T.
Over-Population and its Remedy: an Inquiry into the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British Islands and into the Means of Remedying It
(Irish University Press, 1971 rpt of 1846 edition).
Hardback. Very good. xi + 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A5918
Keywords: 9780716517511, over-population, population, demography, demographic, labour, labor, laboring classes, labouring classes, laborers, labourers, Britain, British, England, English, history, poor, pauperism, poor laws, Malthus, Malthusian, Victorian, nineteenth century, economic, economic, resources, working classes
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Adnett, Nick.
Labour Market Policy:
(Longman Group, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A7873
Keywords: 0582009626, twentieth century, economy, economics, labour, labor, market policy, labour market policy, neoclassical models, labour mobility, migration, employment, unemployment, Britain, British, England, English
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Pond, Chris.
Trouble in Store: A Study of Shopwork and Low Pay
(Low Pay Unit, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good. 57pp. Order No. NSBK-A11170
Keywords: B000HC5H36, low pay, economy, economics, wages, work, labor, labour, employees, money, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, shopwork, shops, pay, clothing shops, Cambridge, minimum wages, overtime, stores
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Kendall, Walter.
The Labour Movement in Europe:
(Allen Lane, rpt., 1975).
Paperback. Covers faded, page edges soiled, otherwise very good. xxi + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-A5979
Keywords: 0713904992, labor, labour, movement, Europe, European, history, politics, work, working, European Economic Community, EEC, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Industrial Revolution, France, French, German, Germany, Britain, British, Belgium, Belgian, Netherlands, Holland, Dutch, motor industry, trade unions, trade unionism, Italy, Italian, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century
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