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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Dyment, Clifford.
The Railway Game: an Early Autobiography
(Readers Union, rpt, 1963).
Hardback. Very good in browned, slightly worn dustwrapper. 218pp. Order No. NSBK-A4710
Keywords: B0000EERAV, British, Britain, England, English, autobiographies, autobiography, railway, steam, railway game, Clifford Dyment, autobiography, child, boy, children, childhood, 1920s, 1930s, interwar, inter-war, inter war, history, boyhood, youth, poems, poet, poets, poetry
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Royal Commission Historical Monuments, .
Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Buckinghamshire
(HMSO, 1986).
Paperback. Small sticker mark on front cover, otherwise very good. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-A3384
Keywords: 0113000065, nonconformity, nonconformist, chapels, Dissent, meeting-houses, Buckinghamshire, English heritage, British, Britain, England, religion, Bethels, Georgian, Christopher Stell, buildings, architecture, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, religion
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Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, .
Education and Training for the Cotton and Rayon Industry: Papers and Dicussions at a Conference in Manchester in September 1946 Organized by the Cotton Board With the Collaboration of the British Rayon Federation, the Textile Institute and the Textile Teachers' Association
(Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, 1946).
A series of essays from different contributors. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly browned, edge worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7704
Keywords: post war, post-war industry, cotton, textiles, rayon, training, industries, textile, Britain, British, England, English, Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Department, industrial training, production, technical colleges, teach, teachers, teaching, technical education, history
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Heinemann, Margot, Labour Research Department.
Britain's Coal: A Study of the Mining Crisis
(Victor Gollancz, 1944).
Foreword by Will Lawther. Hardback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. 195pp. Order No. NSBK-A13478
Keywords: B0006AQV84, coal, coal mining, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, history, miners, colliers, crisis, 1940s, nationalisation, wages, health, safety, dangers, accidents, mines, labour, monopoly, management
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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
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Drew, Eileen, Emerek, Ruth, Mahon, Evelyn.
Women, Work and the Family in Europe:
(Routledge, 1998).
Paperback. Very good +. xvii + 230pp. Order No. NSBK-C15497
Keywords: 0415153514, women, work, family, Europe, European, sociology, sociological, gender, demographic
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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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Helm, Sarah.
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
(Little Brown, 2015).
Hardback. Minor sun-tanning to base of pages, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xviii + 748pp. Order No. NSBK-C15689
Keywords: 9780349120034, Nazi Germany, concentration camps, women, Ravensbruck
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Barker-Benfield, G.J. and Clinton, Catherine.
Portraits of American Women: From the Civil War to the Present
(St Martin's Press, 1991).
Paperback. Very good+. 301 - 619pp. Order No. NSBK-C11929
Keywords: 0312024312, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, The Reform Era,
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