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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Baines, Thomas.
History of the Town and Commerce of Liverpool: and of the Rise of Manufacturing Industry in the Adjoining Counties
(Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, London, Liverpool, 1852).
Small library markings to spine and front endpaper. Frontispiece plan of Liverpool damaged and repaired with sellotape. Another plan, of Royalist Fortifications, torn in two but complete. A little rubbing / bumping to corners, but a very nice copy indeed, sound and tight. Hardback. Full leather nicely repaired. Gilt decoration front & back, raised gilt bands & titles to spine, all edges gilt. Ex library, but library markings minimal. Very good, attractive. xvi + 844 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A6861
Keywords: B000K40UBA, towns, cities, urban, city, commerce, commercial, manufacturing, manufacture, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England, Britain, British, English, counties, Lancashire, history, urbanisation, antiquarian, industry, industrial, Thomas Baines, Industrial Revolution, industrialisation, town, Mersey, Victorian, nineteenth century, Liverpool Docks, trade, exports, imports, economic, economy, ports, port
Price £60.00.
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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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Smith, Alice E.
Millstone and Saw: The Origins of Neenah-Menasha
(Wisconsin Historical Society, 1967).
Hardback. Good in rather soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. vii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14936
Keywords: 0870200968, urban, history, America, United States of America, city, cities, water mills, industry, industrial growthFox River, Neenah-Menasha, manufacturing, ninetenth century, American West
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Ward, J.T.
The Factory System:
(David and Charles, 1970).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-A11470
Keywords: 0715348957, factory, industrial revolution, history, factories, industry
Price £8.00.
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
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Allen, G.C.
Japan's Economic Expansion:
(OUP, rpt., 1969).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xi + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A11957
Keywords: 0192149318, Japan, Japanese, Far East, Asian, Asia, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, twentieth century, 20th, industrial, industries, demography, demographic, population, fisheries, fishery, textiles
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Balfour, Campbell, ed.
Participation in Industry:
(Croom Helm, 1973).
Paperback. Good. 217pp. Order No. NSBK-A13074
Keywords: 0856640026, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work, European, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action
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Supple, Barry E., ed.
The Experience of Economic Growth: Case Studies in Economic History
(Random House, 1963).
A Random House Book. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good in torn dustwrapper. x + 458pp. Order No. NSBK-A13141
Keywords: 0198203578, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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McNeil, Robina and Walker, John S. F.
Warehouse Album: The Heritage Atlas 3. An Archaeological Miscellany from the University of Manchester and the Ten Districts of Greater Manchester
(Field Archaeology Centre, Manchester University, March 1997).
Paperback. Some creasing and scuffing to covers, otherwise very good. 59pp. Order No. NSBK-A14530
Keywords: 0952781352, city, urban, archaeological, warehouses, warehouse, Manchester, Greater Manchester, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, industrial archaeology, Leigh, Rochdale, exports, storage, cities, urbanisation
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