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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Cheshire Federation Women's Institutes, .
The Cheshire Village Book:
(Countryside Books, 1990).
Paperback. Spine creased, a little coffee staining and creasing to rear pages, otherwise good. 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A14317
Keywords: 1853060755, Cheshire Federation Women's Institutes, Cheshire, villages, rural, countryside, farms, Cheshire Plain
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National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, .
The Constitutions, Rules and Handbook:
(National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, 1960).
Hardback. Very good. 129pp. Order No. NSBK-C8747
Keywords: B0000CKMTY, sixties, 1960s, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, women's history, constitutions, rules, handbook, organisations, societies, Britain, British, female, England, English, membership
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Department of Employment, .
Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work: 1st April 1971
(HMSO, 1971).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some creasing to front cover, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A14182
Keywords: 0113603738, wages, hours, work, time rates, employment, 1970s, seventies, manufacturing, industry, economy, textiles, factories, factory, engineering, social history, pay
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Dale Women's Institute, .
Dale: An Illustrated History
(Dale Women's Institute, Pennsylvania, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A9821
Keywords: 095386930X, Dale, Wales, Welsh, Dale Women's Institute, Britain, British, history, community, communities
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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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Strachey, Ray.
Women's Suffrage and Women's Service: the History of the London and National Society for Women's Service
(L.&N. Soc.Women's Service, 1927).
Scarce. With illustrations. Hardback. Card covers darkened and rather soiled, edges and corners worn, internally good, solid. 36pp. Order No. NSBK-C4709
Keywords: B003VY8QRG, history, London and National Society for Women's Service, suffrage, women's suffrage, enfranchisement, Votes for Women, Britain, British, England, English, woman suffrage, politics, Ray Strachey, Emily Davies, Mrs Henry Fawcett, Millicent Fawcett, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, suffragette, political, women's movement, Victorian, equality, Edwardian, society, women's societies, Rachel Strachey, Mrs Oliver Strachey, suffragettes, original suffragette ephemera
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Winship, Janice.
Inside Women's Magazines:
(Pandora, 1987).
Paperback. Covers a little browned, minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xv + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-C3140
Keywords: 9780863580253, magazine, advert, women's magazine, Woman's Own, weekly, femininity, Cosmopolitan, Spare Rib
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Beale, Irene A.
Genesee Valley Women, 1743-1985:
(Chesnut Hill Press, 1985).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, bottom corner bumped, otherwise good. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C7835
Keywords: 0960813225, Genesee Valley, women, women's history, woman, eighteenth century, 18th, 19th, 20th, gender, women and work, women's work biographies, biographical, biography, American, USA, United States, pioneers, pioneer, Iroquois, anti-slavery, slavery, education, lawyers
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Vicinus, Martha.
Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920
(Chicago UP, 1985).
Hardback. Light edgewear to dustwrapper, otherwise good+. xv + 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C7557
Keywords: 0226855678, women's work, single women, spinster, community, work, Britain, British, England, English, history, jobs, career, communities, spinsterhood, careers
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