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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Kingston-upon-Hull City Council, .
Silvered Wings: A Commemorative Brochure
(Kingston-upon-Hull CC, 1980).
The story of Amy Johnson. Produced for the Amy Johnson Festival, Kingston-Upon-Hull, 3rd - 24th May 1980. Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C9692
Keywords: B000HC6XGQ, Amy Johnson, aircraft, aeroplanes, aviators, women, woman, history, Britain, British, England, English, wings, biographical, biographies, biography, lives, life, gender, women's work, Hull, twentieth century, 20th, planes, aviation
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Bowman, Gerald.
The Lamp and the Book: The Story of the Rcn, 1916-1966
(The Queen Anne Press, 1967).
Hardback. Page edges foxed, a little spotting to cloth, otherwise good. 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A3936
Keywords: 0362000220, Royal College of Nursing, nurse, nursing, medicine, medical, health, doctor, women's work, twentieth century, Nightingale Training School, hospital, National Council of Nurses, nursing profession, Nurses Act
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McGann, Susan; Crowther, Anne and Dougall, Rona.
A History of the Royal College of Nursing 1916-90: A Voice for Nurses
(Manchester University Press, 2009).
Hardback. Very good. x + 358pp. Order No. NSBK-C14628
Keywords: 9780719077951, nursing, nurses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, hospitals, Royal College of Nursing, managers, NHS, National Health Service, training, unions, unionism, trade unionism, women and work
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Stuart, Dorothy Margaret.
The English Abigail:
(Macmillan, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with minor marks left by stickers, edges worn, otherwise good. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C3359
Keywords: B0007IW8V0, abigail, domestic service, servant, women adn work, women's work, literature, novel, fiction
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Murphy, Teresa Anne.
Ten Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England
(Cornell UP, 1992).
Hardback. Good in dustwrapper. xii + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C4052
Keywords: 0801426839, gender, religion, religious, reform, United States, America, American, New England, USA, history, work, labor, labour, women, men, workers, employers, mill towns, Boston, Fall River, factories, factory
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Royal College of Nursing, Molly Case.
Album: It May Be for Sometime, it May be Forever
(RCN, 2017).
Poetry anthology inspired by ten nurses who kept scrapbooks during World War I. Paperback. Very good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15688
Keywords: Molly Case, Royal College of Nursing, World War I, First World War, nursing, medicine, nurses, women and work, history, booklets
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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
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Horn, Pamela.
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant:
(Gill and Macmillan, 1975).
Hardback. With minor pencil annotation, and newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15682
Keywords: 717107469, Victorian, servants, nineteenth century, women, history, work, domesticity, employment, class, domestics, maids, maidservants, Britain, British, England, English, domestic service, housework, below stairs
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Ogden, Annegret S. Ogden.
The Great American Housewife: From helpmate to wage earner, 1776-1986
(Greenwood Press, 1986).
Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper, with some pencil annotation on opening pages. xxiiii + 255pp. Order No. NSBK-C15514
Keywords: 0313247528, American, America, United States, US, United States of America, housewife, housewives, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, women's work, women and work
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