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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Langan, Mary and Schwarz, Bill, eds.
Crises in the British State, 1880-1930:
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Paperback. Coverschipped and slightly dented, otherwise good+. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-A8083
Keywords: 0091546818, state, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, society, suffrage, feminism, child welfare, class, schooling, education, economy, imperialism, unemployment, labour, labor
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Mackie, Lindsay and Pattullo, Polly.
Women at Work:
(Tavistock Studies, 1977).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+ with newspaper cuttings pasted inside. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C10190
Keywords: 0422759902, women, women's work, women workers, women and work, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th, labour, labor, domesticity, trade unions, housework, children, jobs, employment, equal pay
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Savage, Mike and Witz, Anne, eds.
Gender and Bureaucracy:
(Blackwells, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. 282pp. Order No. NSBK-A14116
Keywords: 0631185283, Mike Savage, Anne Witz, sociology, gender relations, labour, bureaucracy, finance, organisations, institutions
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Thomas, Mary Martha.
The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920
(Alabama UP, 1992).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. viii + 269pp. Order No. NSBK-C6710
Keywords: 0817305645, Mary Martha Thomas, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, women's history, women's rights, rights of women, women and politics, suffrage, suffragists, suffragettes, The New Woman, gender, Sourthern lady, Southern belle, black women, white women, domesticity, child labour, child labor, Mary Martha Thomas, educational reform, temperance, clubs, organisations, associations, race, racism, America, USA, United States, public debate, American
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Abraham, Katharine and McKersie, Robert, eds.
New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm
(MIT Press, 1990).
Hardback. Very good + in dustwrapper. 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A10265
Keywords: 0262011182, economics, institutions, economy, twentieth century, 20th, labour markets, labor, employers, employees, workers, public policy
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DeVault, Ileen A.
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
(Cornell University Press, rpt, 1995).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 194pp. Order No. NSBK-A14157
Keywords: 0801483077, Pittsburgh, clerical work, class, white collar labour, workers, clerical jobs, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, offices, office workers, twentieth century, careers, skilled workers, women, female
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Hawkins, Kevin.
British Industrial Relations, 1945-1975:
(Barrie and Jenkins, 1976).
Hardback. Good with very minor ink annotation. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A9909
Keywords: 0214202739, Britain, British, twentieth century, post war, trade unions, trade unionists, labour, labor, work, wages
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Blatchford, Robert.
Not Guilty: a Defence of the Bottom Dog
(Clarion Press, 1906).
Hardback. Spine edges and corners worn, otherwise good. 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A5491
Keywords: B0006DAEK2, Robert Blatchford, labour movement, Clarion Clubs, Clarion Movement, social history, Britain, British, England, English, Edwardian, labour history, class, heredity, working class, working classes, working-class, punishment, environment, influence of environment, period sources, contemporary comment, antiquarian
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Calmfors, Lars and Horn, Henrik, eds.
Trade Unions, Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Stability:
(Macmillan, 1986).
Topics in Contemporary Economic Analysis. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn dustwrapper. vi + 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A10268
Keywords: 0333409639, trade unionism, trade unionists, wages, wage formation, macroeconomics, employment, twentieth century, 20th, unions, unemployment, stabilization, stabilisation, labor, labour, government, policy, policies
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