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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Davidson, Marilyn J. and Cooper, Cary, L., ed.
Working Women: An International Survey
(John Wiley and Sons, 1984).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good. x + 306pp. Order No. NSBK-C13181
Keywords: 0471904597, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, international, twentieth century, 20th, statistical
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Lockwood, Helen Drusilla.
Tools and the Man: A Comparative Study of the French Workingman and English Chartists in the Literature of 1830-1848
(AMS Press, 1966).
Hardback. Cloth slightly rubbed, otherwise good. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A6133
Keywords: B0007DWRK6, England, English, French, French, British, Britain, Europe, European, history, workingman, working class, working-class, Chartists, radicals, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, Chartism, Chartist Movement, working classes
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Sangster, Joan.
Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada
(Toronto UP, 2010).
Paperback. Very good+. x + 414pp. Order No. NSBK-A15111
Keywords: 9780802096524, Canada, Canadian, working women, women, history, postwar, after the war, labour, employment, women's work
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Paperback. Fine. iv + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4311
Keywords: 0718500598, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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Malone, Carolyn.
Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880-1914:
(Royal Historical Society, 2003).
Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C13167
Keywords: 0861932641, women's bodies, body, sexuality, femininity, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, social history, work, industry, reproduction, dangerous trades, white lead, pottery trade, potteries, medicine, medical, health, pregnancy, working conditions, sexual difference, infant mortality, foetal protection
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Butler, Josephine E.
The Education and Employment of Women:
(Portrayer, 2003 reprint of May 1868 text).
No 6 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New book, fine. 37pp. Order No. NSBK-A5503
Keywords: B001C3XFSI, Josephine E. Butler, education, employment, governesses, governess, social history, labour, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, employees, women teachers, women's rights, Britain, British, England, English, equal pay, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, wages, labor, schools, school, schooling, low pay, inequality, patriarchy, spinsters, spinsterhood, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, new title, workers, Open Archive Occasional Series, booklet
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Hijab, Nadia.
Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work
(CUP, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C4379
Keywords: 052126992X, Arab, Arabs, Arabian, women, Arab countries, Arab laws, Middle East, Middle Eastern, Arabian laws, Nadia Hijab, women and work, work, family, families, workforce, work force, status, Jordan, Jordanian, Arab Gulf, gender, Arab Gulf states, working women, Islam, Islamic, Moslem, Muslim
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Hunt, Audrey.
A Survey of Women's Employment: Vol II Tables
(HMSO, March 1968).
Government Social Survey. A survey carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Labour by the Government Social Survey in 1963. Paperback. Spine slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. vii + 299pp. Order No. NSBK-C15475
Keywords: B000IU1U2Y, social survey, government, politics, political, Britain, British, England, English, statistics, work, employment, women and work, women's work, employees, working women, non-working women, tywentieth century, post-war
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Rees, Teresa.
Women and the Labour Market:
(Routledge, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A15219
Keywords: 9780415038027, labour market, women, working, employment, trade unions, occupations
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