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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Walker, Martyn A.
Examinations for the Underprivileged in Victorian Times: the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution and the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
(William Shipley Group for RSA History, 2008).
WSG Research Paper 1. Paperback. Fine. 68pp. Order No. NSBK-A14127
Keywords: B001P4AQIQ, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, history, education, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, William Shipley Group for RSA History, poor, poverty, adult education, working classes, working men, working class education, self-improvement, literacy, illiteracy, self improvement, class, mechanics' institutions
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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Checkland, S. G.
The Rise of Industrial Society in England, 1815-1885:
(Longman, 5th impress., 1971).
Social and Economic History of England Series. General Editor, Asa Briggs. Paperback. Tear to front cover, otherwise good. xiv + 471pp. Order No. NSBK-A5681
Keywords: 0582482399, England, English, history, Britain, British, industrial, industry, society, Victorian, nineteenth century, Regency, labor, labour, working class, working classes, urban
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Frolich, Paul.
Rosa Luxemburg:
(Pluto, 2nd impression, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xx + 329pp. Order No. NSBK-A14589
Keywords: 0902818198, Rosa Luxemburg, women, working classes, working class movement, biography, biographies, communism, communist, Communist Party, Germany, German, socialism, socialist, socialists, Social Democratic Party
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Stearns, Peter N.
Lives of Labour: Work in a Maturing Industrial Society
(Croom Helm, 1975).
Hardback. Minor ink annotation, otherwise good in slightly creased, slightly chipped dustwrapper. viii + 424pp. Order No. NSBK-A4884
Keywords: 085664210X, labour, labor, history, industry, industrial, mature capitalism, industrialising, work, Britain, England, France, Belgium, Germany, British, English, French, Belgian, German, working classes, working class, economy, employment, occupations, economic
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Swindells, Julia.
Victorian Writing and Working Women: the Other Side of Silence
(Polity Press, 1985).
Paperback. Good+. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4041
Keywords: 0745600727, Victorian, nineteenth century, writing, women, work, women writers, gender, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, novels, autobiography, autobiographies, literature
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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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Walkerdine, Valerie and Lucey, Helen.
Democracy in the Kitchen: Regulating Mothers and Socialising Daughters
(Virago, 1989).
Paperback. With a newspaper review and letter pasted to rear endpapers, otherwise good condition. vii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C15803
Keywords: 9781853810343, mothers, daughters, family, domesticity, class, gender, democracy
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Fairfax-Lucy, Alice.
Mistress of Charlecote: The Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy, 1803-1889
(Victor Gollancz, rpt, 1987).
Paperback. Good. 182pp. Order No. NSBK-C486
Keywords: 0575036931, Mary Elizabeth Lucy, Charlecote, memoir, aristocracy, class, stately home, Britain, British, England, English, history
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