Brown, George.
In My Way: The Political Memoirs of Lord George-Brown
(Book Club Associates, rpt., 1971).
Hardback. Very good in edge worn dustwrapper. 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A9356
Keywords: 057500696X, political, politics, memoirs, Lord George-Brwon, George Brown, Britain, British, history, Labour party, Labour, Peabody Buildings, twentieth century, 20th, MPs, Members of Parliament
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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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Maclean, Mavis.
Surviving Divorce: Women's Resources After Separation
(Macmillan, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 151pp. Order No. NSBK-A14114
Keywords: 0333465342, divorce, marriage, family, separation, women, economic, welfare, remarriage, labour market, splitting up, single women, sociology
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Pond, Chris.
Trouble in Store: A Study of Shopwork and Low Pay
(Low Pay Unit, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good. 57pp. Order No. NSBK-A11170
Keywords: B000HC5H36, low pay, economy, economics, wages, work, labor, labour, employees, money, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, shopwork, shops, pay, clothing shops, Cambridge, minimum wages, overtime, stores
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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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Allen, G.C.
The Structure of Industry in Britain: A Study in Economic Change
(Longman, 3rd edit., 1972).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, otherwise good. viii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A10075
Keywords: industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Britain, British, history, England, English, labour, labor, labour organisation, economics, economic, twentieth century, twentieth, Allen
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Holland, Eric G.
Coniston Copper: a History
(Cicerone Press, 1987).
Inscribed by the author on the fly leaf. Hardback. Very good+ in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 312pp. Order No. NSBK-A13441
Keywords: 0902363425, copper, Coniston, copper mining, mines, miners, Lake District, Lakes, Lake Counties, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, John Barratt, Thomas Wynne, Thomas Warsop, Cumbrian, Cumbria, work, industry, employment, labour, 19th century, Victorian, nineteenth century
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Thompson, Laurence.
The Enthusiasts: A Biography of John and Katharine Bruce Glasier
(Victor Gollancz, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in rubbed and faded dustrwapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A312
Keywords: 9780575006553, John Bruce Glasier, Katharine Bruce Glasier, socialism, biography, biographies, labour movement, labor, socialists, history, Scotland, Scottish, ILP, Independent Labour Party, Britain, British, nineteenth century, twentieth century, poltics, political, Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald
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National Research Council, .
Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment
(National Academy Press, 1986).
Volume 1. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14140
Keywords: 0309036887, work, women and work, employment, workers, computers, technology, labour, labor, female, clerical work, white collar, Louise A. Tilly
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Huggett, Frank E.
The Coal Miner:
(The Educational Supply Association, 1955).
People's Jobs. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine worn, ink stain to one page, a working copy. 89pp. Order No. NSBK-J11333
Keywords: B0000CJ5H8, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, labour, labor, work, miners, pitmen, coal, mines, pits, collieries, colliery, jobs, employment, twentieth century, 20th, mining
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