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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Maylunas, Andrei and Mironenko, Sergei.
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra. Their Own Story
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2nd impression, 1996).
Heavy book. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 516pp. Order No. NSBK-A8520
Keywords: 0297815202, Tsarism, Tsarist, Russian, Russia, royalty, royalty, monarchy, monarchs, Nicholas I, history, Tsarina, Alexandra, Russian Revolution, repression, reform, revolutionaries, reaction
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Hartford, William F.
Where is Our Responsibility?: Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960
(Massachusetts Press, 1996).
Hardback. Very good+. x + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A12362
Keywords: 1558490221, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, New England, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, , Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, textiles, factories, factory, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, work
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Smith, Angela.
Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War:
(Bloomsbury, 2013).
Hardback. Fine. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-C15573
Keywords: 9781780932019, widows, widowhood, history, Great War, women, World War I
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Rabb, Theodore K and Rotberg, Robert I.
The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays
(Harper Torchbooks, 1973).
Paperback. Covers soiled and slightly torn, otherwise a good working copy. vii + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9490
Keywords: 0061317578, family, families, history, social history, men, women, children, domesticity, women, women's history
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Beasley, Chris.
What is Feminism?: An Introduction to Feminist Theory
(Sage, 1999).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C11079
Keywords: 9780761963356, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, history of ideas, politics, women and politics, twentieth century, 20th
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Ouditt, Sharon.
Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War
(Routledge, 1994).
Very good. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C15575
Keywords: 9781138151529, women writers, Great War, literature, history, World War I
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Elizabeth, Charlotte.
The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. Vol I: With an Introduction by Mrs H. B. Stowe
(M. W. Dodd, fifth edition, 1847).
Vol 1: Personal Recollections, Osric ( a poem), the Rockite, Helen Fleetwood, The Siege of Derry, Letters from Ireland, Miscellaneous Poems, The Flower Garden. Hardback. Some loss to spine at top and bottom end, rubbing to edges, light foxing, otherwise good, solid and complete. 753pp. Order No. NSBK-C15365
Keywords: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Harriet Beecher Stowe, American women, literature
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Mackenzie, Norman & Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume I: 1873 - 1892. Glitter Around and Darkness Within
(Virago, rpt, 1986).
Volume I only. Paperback. Edges slightly curled, otherwise good. xxii + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-C4262
Keywords: 0860688461, Beatrice Webb, socialism, socialist, socialists, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian socialism, women, history, diaries, diary, Victorian, Sidney Webb, Charles Booth, Margaret Harkness, Joseph Chamberlain, nineteenth century, Virago, Webbs
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