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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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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Unesco, .
Bibliographic Guide to Studies on the Status of Women: Development and Population Trends
(Unesco, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good in creased dustwrapper. xii + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A7767
Keywords: 9231021222, women, women's history, woman, female, bibliography, biobliographies, bibliographic, reference, status, class, classes, population, demography, demographic
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Wojtczak, Helena.
Women of Victorian Sussex: their Status, Occupations,and Dealings With The Law, 1830-1870
(Hastings Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C7234
Keywords: 1904109055, Victorian, Hastings, women, woman, nineteenth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, provinces, provincial, regional studies, seaside, seaside towns, women's history, occupations, neighbourhood, community, communities, urban, urban history, St Leonards, gender, Sussex, Victorian prostitution, prostitutes, prostitute, infanticide, liquor, liquor trade. trade, motherhood, mothers, mother, occupation, occupations, infant murder, infant killing, infant killings, brothel, brothels, milliners, milliner, midwives, midwife, midwifery, drunkenness, drunkard, drunkards, drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, 19th Century, Lewes, Brighton, status, law, laws, Hailsham, Helena Wojtczak, Chichester, Class, Classes
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Langan, Mary and Schwarz, Bill, eds.
Crises in the British State, 1880-1930:
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Paperback. Coverschipped and slightly dented, otherwise good+. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-A8083
Keywords: 0091546818, state, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, society, suffrage, feminism, child welfare, class, schooling, education, economy, imperialism, unemployment, labour, labor
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Walvin, James.
English Urban Life, 1776-1851:
(Hutchinson, 1984).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise good. vii + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A7558
Keywords: 0091561515, James Walvin, England, English, history, Britain, British, towns, cities, city, urban, metropolitan, metropolis, population, demographic, demography, housing, homes, houses, streets, machinery, social class, classes, poverty, urbanisation, urbanization, poor, public order, law enforcement
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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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Purvis, June and Hales, Margaret, eds.
Achievement and Inequality in Education: A Reader
(RKP / Open University, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, creasing and wear to covers. A working copy. 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A12594
Keywords: 0710200102, education, inequality, comprehensive education, class, educational policy, June Purvis, Margaret Hales, sociology
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Reay, Barry.
Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England
(Reaktion Books Limited, 2002).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-H13042
Keywords: 1861891199. Hannah Cullwick, Arthur Munby, servants, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, body, bodies, working class, working classes, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Jones, Stephen G.
Workers at Play: a Social and Economic History of Leisure, 1918 - 1939
(RKP, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. viii + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A4346
Keywords: 0710206356, leisure, recreations, recreation, social history, interwar, inter war, inter-war, hobbies, sport, gambling, boxing, men, women, economic, holidays, drinking, pub, pubs, public houses, popular culture, cinema, working class, working classes, pastimes, voluntary organisations, clubs, working men's clubs, labour, entertainment, Britain, British, England, English
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