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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Derry, T. K. and Jarman, T. L.
Modern Britain: Life and Work through Two Centuries of Change
(Cox and Wyman, 1979).
Paperback. Very good. 390pp. Order No. NSBK-A9773
Keywords: 0719535468, modern Britain, British, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, Victorian, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization
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Supple, Barry, ed.
Essays in British Business History:
(Clarendon, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, a little discolouration to covers, otherwise a good copy. viii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A5554
Keywords: 019877088X, business, business history, Britain, British, England, English, businesses, economy, economic, entrepreneurs, Barry Supple, manufacturing, industry, industrial, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, industries, technology
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Barron, Hal S.
Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930
(The University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
Paperback. Very good+. xiv + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-A12559
Keywords: 0807846597, north, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, industry, work
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Hareven, Tamara K. and Langenbach, Randolph.
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City in New England
(Methuen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A3210
Keywords: 0416721605, city, industrial, Amoskeag, America, American, American history, labour history, labor history, Amoskeag, United States, USA manufacturing company, textile, Merrimack, New Hampshire, factory, immigration, oral history
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Symons, Julian.
The General Strike:
(Cresset Library, rpt, 1987).
Paperback. Spine and front cover lightly creased, otherwise good. xviii + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-A8882
Keywords: 0091729289, General Strike, Britain, British, history, England, English, nineteen twenties, unions, trade unions, trades unions, trade unionism, strikes, industrial action, 1920s, inter-war, interwar, inter war
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Philips, David.
Crime and Authority in Victorian England: The Black Country 1835-1860
(Croom Helm, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in slightly faded dustwrapper. 321pp. Order No. NSBK-A2830
Keywords: 087471866X, Victorian, crime, authority, the Black Country, police, prosecution, fraud, violence, property, Industrial Revolution, Wolverhampton, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, Midlands, 19th century, criminals, criminal, criminality, courts, court, trial, trials, offences, offenders, offence, quarter session, assizes, magistrate, magistrates, policing, police, constable, constables, policemen, officers, force, parish, local, bobbies, bobbie, larcenies, fraud, prosecution, prosecutors, committal, hearings, hearing, committals, peelers, constabulary, justices of the peace, justices, jp, jps, jp's
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Payne, P. L.
British Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century:
(Macmillan, 1974).
Studies in Economic History. Paperback. Soiling to covers, ink annotations, a good working copy only. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A9143
Keywords: 333116461, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, 19th, history, Victorian, economics, economy, entrepreneurs, industrial revolution, industry, business, commerce
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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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Balfour, Campbell, ed.
Participation in Industry:
(Croom Helm, 1973).
Paperback. Good. 217pp. Order No. NSBK-A13074
Keywords: 0856640026, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work, European, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action
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