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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Hetherington, H.
The Poor Man's Guardian, 1831 - 1835: Vol 4 only
(Merlin Press, 1969).
Volume IV only. A Reprint of the Original Journal with Introduction by Patricia Hollis. January 3rd 1835 to December 26th 1835. Hardback. A little light flecking to cloth, minor foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in slightly browned, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 377 - 800pp. Order No. NSBK-A15835
Keywords: Poor Man's Guardian, pre-Chartism, pre-Chartists, pre-Chartist, pre-Chartist movement, working classes, history, 19th century, nineteenth century, Henry Hetherington, radicalism, radicals, Britain, British, England, English, Patricia Hollis, Owenism, Robert Owen, Owenites, National Union of the Working Classes, Labour Theory of Value, Whigs, reformers, 1835, poor, history, poverty
Price £40.00.
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Boucherett, Jessie and Blackburn, Helen.
The Condition of Working Women and the Factory Acts:
(Elliot Stock, photocopy of 1896 edition).
Please note: this is a photocopy of the original text only in a blue library binding. Hardback. Photocopy in blue library binding, good condition. 174pp. Order No. NSBK-C16015
Keywords: Victorian, labour, working women, woman, working class, industry, economy, factories, factory acts, nineteenth century, history
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Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
Price £11.50.
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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
Price £4.00.
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Mayhew, Henry.
Mayhew's Characters:
(Spring Books, 1967).
Edited with a note on the English character by Peter Quennell. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper which is rather torn and tatty at edges. xix + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A5010
Keywords: B0000CNF5P, Henry Mayhew, nineteenth century, Victorian, povery, poor, London, oral history, Britain, British, England, english, interviews, people, popular, working-class, working class, work, labor, labour, mayhew's characters, mayhew's, mayhew, characters
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Clegg, Ian.
Workers' Self-Management in Algeria:
(Allen Lane, 1971).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, a little soiling to boards, otherwise good condition. 249pp. Order No. NSBK-A15865
Keywords: 9780853452003, workers, labour, labor, Africa, Algeria, colonialism, France, French colonies, management, economy, economic, colonial, Algerian, African, class, working classes
Price £14.99.
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Jones, David.
Chartism and the Chartists:
(Allen Lane, 1975).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise good. 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A1536
Keywords: 0713909226, Chartism, Chartists, Chartist movement, history, radicalism, universal male suffrage, British radicals, radicalism, England, English, Britain, class, labour, nineteenth century, 19th century
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Campbell, Beatrix.
The Iron Ladies: Why Do Women Vote Tory?
(Virago, 1987).
Paperback. Page edges a little soiled, otherwise very good. 314pp. Order No. NSBK-C3471
Keywords: 0860686892, Tory Party, Conservative, politics, voting patterns, elections, British, English, Britain, England, Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism, paternalism, Primrose League, Virago
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Feminist Review, ed, .
Waged Work: A Reader
(Virago, 1986).
Paperback. Back cover foxed, otherwise good. vi + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-A9136
Keywords: 0860688011, try to find under r for review, work, wages, waged work, labour, labor, employment, sex, sex discrimination, equal opportunities, trade unions, trade unionism, women's history, black women, homeworking, European Community, feminism, feminists, earning, gender, women's work, women and work
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