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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Barros, Mauricio Rands.
Labour Relations and the New Unionism in Contemporary Brazil:
(Macmillan, 1999).
St Antony's Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xx + 321pp. Order No. NSBK-A14061
Keywords: 0333736168, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, Brasilian, history, labour relations, new unionism, trade unionism, labour movement, citizenship, industrial relations, labor, unions, collective bargaining
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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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Aspin, Chris.
Mr Pilling's Short Cut to China and Other Stories of Rossendale Enterprise:
(Helmshore Local History Society, 1983).
Paperback. Some fading to cover dye, otherwise good+. iv + 100pp. Order No. NSBK-A7116
Keywords: 0906881021, Pilling's, China, Rossendale, nineteenth century, 19th, Bacup, Rochdale, industry, industrial, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, factories, factory, mills, bags, Charter, Chartists, Mr Pilling, the Whitworth Pioneers, China, Chinese, trade, Helmshore, businessman, businessmen, cotton spinners, spinning, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, Lancashire
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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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Floud, Roderick and McCloskey, Donald, eds.
The Economic History of Britain Since 1700:
(CUP, rpt, 1984).
Volume I only, 1700 - 1860. Paperback. Light creasing & yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. xv + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-A8899
Keywords: 0521298423, economy, economics, Roderick Floud, Donald McCloskey, history, labour, labor, labour supply, population, 18th century, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, demography, trade, empire, capital, capital accumulation, agriculture, industrial revolution, technology, technical progress, Britain, British, England, English
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Hodson, Patricia M., ed.
The Manchester Ship Canal: a Guide to Historical Sources
(Lancashire Bibliography, 1985).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good. xi + 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A5212
Keywords: 0902217143, Manchester, regional studies, Manchester Ship Canal, North West, industrial, industry, social history, canals, navigation, man-made waterways, navvies, ports, port of Manchester, Ellesmere Port, trade, commerce, commercial, transport, Lancashire, Britain, British, England, English, sources, documents, bibliography, research, bibliographies
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Winstanley, Michael, ed..
Rural Industries of the Lune Valley:
(Centre for North West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, 2000).
Paperback. New book, fine. vi + 147pp. Order No. NSBK-A2952
Keywords: 1862200947, North-West, North West, regional, Lune Valley, rural, Lunesdale, mining, basket-making, quarrying, textile, Industrial Revolution, hat, mill, 1 86220 094 7, _UL, Caton, Hornby, Wray, Halton, Betham, Britain, British, England, English, history, Centre for North West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster
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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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Perry, P. J., ed.
British Agriculture, 1875-1914:
(Methuen and Co, 1973).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xliv + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-A6694
Keywords: 0416759408, history, Britain, British, England, English, agriculture, agricultural, countryside, country, rural, farms, farming, landowners, farmers, industry, industrial, food, cereal, pastoral, economy, economics
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