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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Brown, Kenneth D.
Labour and Unemployment, 1900-1914:
(David & Charles, 1971).
Hardback. Page edges slightly soiled, otherwise very good. 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A1539
Keywords: 0715353012, twentieth century, 20th, labour, unemployment, employment, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Edwardian, working, working class, working classes, class, politics, political, politicians, government
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Berg, Maxine, ed.
Technology and Toil in Nineteenth Century Britain: Documents
(CSE Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-A4939
Keywords: 0906336031, Britain, British, history, England, English, toil, labour, labor, work, nineteenth century,m Victorian, industry, pin money, weaving, factory, factories, textiles, steel making, steam engines, lead foundries, shipbuilding, boot and shoe trade, workshop, industrialisation, industrialization, coal, saw mills, machines, working class, working classes, working-class
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Brown, Phillip and Scase, Richard, eds.
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour
(Open UP, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A14097
Keywords: 0335099408, labour, labor, division of labour, working classes, low-paid jobs, unskilled labour, low pay, working conditions, temporary work, part-time work, labour market, economy, employment
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Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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Clark, Alice.
Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century:
(RKP, rpt, 1982).
Paperback. Covers edge worn and faded, otherwise good. xliii + 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C6631
Keywords: 0710090455, Alice Clark, seventeenth century, women, women and work, working women, capitalism, labouring women, class, wives, widows, mothers, midwives, midwife, social history, England, Britain, English, British, 17th century, midwifery
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Malmgreen, Gail.
Neither Bread nor Roses: Utopian Feminists and the English Working Class, 1800-1850
(John L. Noyce, 1978).
Studies in Labour History. Pamphlet. Covers slightly soiled and browned, otherwise good. 43pp. Order No. NSBK-C12787
Keywords: B001B4DC36, Gail Malmgreen, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, utopias, class, working class, working-class, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, pamphlets, stored with pamphlets
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Keating, P.J., ed.
Working-class Stories of the 1890s:
(RKP, rpt, 1975).
Paperback. Creases to front cover, otherwise good. xvii + 157pp. Order No. NSBK-A450
Keywords: 0710082576, working-class stories, fiction, 1890s, East End, London, literature, Victorian, class, England, English, Britain, British
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Kelly's, .
Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes for 1919:
(Kelly's Directories, 1919).
45th Annual Edition. Hardback. Original red cloth with black and gilt detail. Some light soiling and light wear to cloth, espec. at edges, otherwise good+, solid. xvii + 1741pp. Order No. NSBK-A15210
Keywords: B002VDA1PI, Kelly's directories, Kelly's handbook, Kelly, upper class, upper classes, titles, history, titled, class, social structure, aristocracy
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Orr, Emily C.
Our Working Boys: Suggestions for Their Teachers
(SPCK, 1900).
Hardback. Boards and spine worn, internally good. 128 + 8pp. Order No. NSBK-A11911
Keywords: B000HC7CKM, SPCK, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, boys, working boys, Emily C. Orr, work
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