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
Price £24.00.
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Walton, John K. and Walvin, James.
Leisure in Britain, 1780 - 1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library, spine creased, usual library markings, otherwise good. vi + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A13843
Keywords: 071901946X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
Price £23.00.
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Freund, Julien.
The Sociology of Max Weber:
(Allen Lane, 1968).
Translated from the French by Mary Ilford. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. ix + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-A11231
Keywords: 039444602X, sociology, sociologists, Max Weber, Julien Freund, history of ideas
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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
Price £12.00.
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Ereira, Alan.
The People's England:
(RKP, 1981).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. Newspaper review pasted to inner board. xviii + 285pp. Order No. NSBK-A11832
Keywords: 0710005962, social history, Alan Ereira, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, miners, factory, factories, factory system, shopkeepers, servants, working classes, workers
Price £8.00.
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Blyth, John A.
English University Adult Education, 1908-1958: A Unique Tradition
(MUP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xii + 363pp. Order No. NSBK-A9101
Keywords: 0719009030, adult education, training, twentieth , century, 20th, Britain, British, history, England, English, university, universities, academics, Ashby Report, Liberal, academe, adults, Workers' Educational Association, WEA
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Brown, Philip and Sparks, Richard, eds.
Beyond Thatcherism: Social Policy, Politics and Society
(Open UP, 1989).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise good+. xvi + 159pp. Order No. NSBK-A9730
Keywords: 0335099033, Thatcher, Thatcherism, social policy, politics, political, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Kapo, Vito, et al.
Problems of the Struggle for the Complete Emancipation of Women:
(Gamma, rpt, 1978).
A selection of essays. Paperback. Paper covers faded, otherwise good. 282pp. Order No. NSBK-C3676
Keywords: B0032QBUMG, Albanian, women, Tirana, emancipation, politics, freedom, feminism, women's rights, Albania, Albanian women, women's history
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Lassman, Peter, ed.
Politics and Social Theory:
(Routledge, 1989).
Paperback. Good+. ix + 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A9682
Keywords: 0415017998, politics, sociology, British, Britain, England, English, history, political, state, populations, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Blackmore, Betsy L.
The A B C of Needlework:
(Ralph, Holland and Co, 1906).
Containing 174 Original Diagrams, including Two Inset Plates. With a preface by Miss S. Loch. Hardback. Pencil annotation at back not affecting legibility, covers slightly stained, otherwise good. 123pp. Order No. NSBK-G11395
Keywords: B0008BXV20, needlework, needles, stitches, stitching, sewing, seamstresses, twentieth century, 20th, crafts, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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