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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George, Henry.
Social Problems:
(Kegan, Paul, Trench, 1884).
Hardback. Title page loose, some pgs uncut, one page torn (legibility not affected), otherwise good. viii + 334pp. Order No. NSBK-A4358
Keywords: social problems, social conditions, nineteenth century, USA, American, United States of America, labour, labor, social conditions, slavery, slaves, class, slave
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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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Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan.
The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny:
(Book Club Associates, 1973).
Hardback. A good working copy in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 350pp. Order No. NSBK-C12373
Keywords: 0340126795, nanny, nursery, family, baby, motherhood, class, servant, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Gray, Robert Q.
The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh:
(Clarendon Press, 1976).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in faded dustwrapper. ix + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A9278
Keywords: 0198224427, labour, labor, aristocracy, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, Scotland, Scottish, Scotch, Britain, British, working class, working-class
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Wrigley, Julia, ed.
Education and Gender Equality:
(Falmer Press, 1992).
Paperback. A little light yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. ix + 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C14161
Keywords: 1850009465, gender, education, equality, gender differences, schools, class, inequality, sexual discrimination, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, ethnographic
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Stevenson, John and Cook, Chris.
The Slump: Society and Politics During the Depression
(Quartet Books, 1979).
Paperback. Spine creased and covers yellowed, very minimal pencil annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. x + 348pp. Order No. NSBK-A10470
Keywords: 0704332809, slump, Depression, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, 1930s, thirties, unemployment, working class, working-class, classes, enemployed, Communism, Communists, The National Unemployed Workers' Movement, Hunger marches, Fascists, government, polls, general elections
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Rosenblatt, Frank F.
The Chartist Movement: In Its Social and Economic Aspects
(Frank Cass, rpt., 1967).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A12786
Keywords: 0714611034, class, politics, political, politicians, government, Chartism, Chartists, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Hammond, J.L. & Hammond, Barbara.
The Town Labourer:
(Longman, 1978).
Paperback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good. xlvii + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A7559
Keywords: 0582480817, Hammond, urban labourers, town, work, industry, employment, poor, poverty, unemployment, urbanisation, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history, town, towns, work, Britain, British, England, English, Hammonds, poor, factories, factory, factory system, power looms, industrial revolution, workers, class, working class, working classes, child labour, labour, labor, Lord Shaftesbury, trade unions, economic history, economy
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Gordon, Linda, ed.
Women, the State and Welfare:
(Wisconsin UP, 1992).
Paperback. Light creasing to spine and rubbing to edges, otherwise very good. 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C5459
Keywords: 9780299126643, welfare, social welfare, race, class, America, American, United States of America, USA, women's, women, woman, social security, twentieth century, state, state welfare, state support, unemployment, welfare programmes, public welfare, poor women, poverty, social policy, Linda Gordon
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