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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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
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The Labour Party, .
Discrimination Against Women: Report of a Labour Party Study Group
(The Labour Party, 1972).
Opposition Green Paper. Paperback. Covers browned, otherwise good. 45pp. Order No. NSBK-C10598
Keywords: 0900507306, women, woman, women's history, women's movement, feminism, women's studies, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, government, opposition, green paper, discrimination, equal rights, equal pay, Labour party, socialism, twentieth century, education, work, industrial training, employment, pay, social services, social security, taxation, law
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Labour History Journal, .
North West Labour History Journal: No 27: The North in the '70s
(North West Labour History Group, 2002).
Journal. Good. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A10722
Keywords: 13626302, North West, Northern, North, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 1970s, nineteen seventies
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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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Gregson, Nicky & Lowe, Michelle.
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain
(Routledge, 1994).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A1431
Keywords: 0415085314, domestic labour, class, gender, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, wages, nanny, nannies, servants, servant, maid servants, maid servants, cleaners, cleaner, home helps, gender relations, class, sociology, women, women and work
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Davies, A. J.
To Build a New Jerusalem: The Labour Movement from the 1880s to the 1990s
(Michael Joseph, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. vi + 344pp. Order No. NSBK-A8529
Keywords: 0718133943, labour labor, politics, political, Labour Party, Britain, British, England, English, history, organisations, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, socialism, socialists
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Brown, Phillip and Scase, Richard, eds.
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour
(Open UP, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A14097
Keywords: 0335099408, labour, labor, division of labour, working classes, low-paid jobs, unskilled labour, low pay, working conditions, temporary work, part-time work, labour market, economy, employment
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Morton, A.L. and Tate, George.
The British Labour Movement, 1770-1920: A History
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1956).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A12133
Keywords: B0000CJH9N, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, Labour, Labour Party, Labor, left, left wing, Labour Movement, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth century, 18th, 19th, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Grebing, Helga.
The History of the German Labour Movement: a Survey
(Oswald Wolf, 1969).
With a chapter on foreign policy by Mary Saran. Hardback. Ex library, mark left by library sticker on spine, otherwise very good, bright. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-F1325
Keywords: 0854961046, German, Germany German History, German Labour Movement, labour
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