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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Holbrook-Jones, Mike.
Supremacy and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement
(Heinemann Educational, 1982).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8640
Keywords: 0435824171, class, classes, class structure, heirarchy, social, society, working-class, working-class, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, jobs, labour, labor, miners, coal, spinners, engineers, men, man, Maxist, Marxism, industrial revolution, labour history, labor history, Britain, British, England, English, history, sociology, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists
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Berg, Maxine, ed.
Technology and Toil in Nineteenth Century Britain: Documents
(CSE Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-A4939
Keywords: 0906336031, Britain, British, history, England, English, toil, labour, labor, work, nineteenth century,m Victorian, industry, pin money, weaving, factory, factories, textiles, steel making, steam engines, lead foundries, shipbuilding, boot and shoe trade, workshop, industrialisation, industrialization, coal, saw mills, machines, working class, working classes, working-class
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Loane, M.
The Queen's Poor: Life As They Find it in Town in Country
(Middlesex UP, 1998).
Introduction by Susan Cohen and Clive Fleay. Paperback. Slightly soiled, otherwise good. liii + 312pp. Order No. NSBK-A12701
Keywords: 1898253226, The Queen's Poor, poor, poverty, M. Loane, social investigations, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, towns, country, nurses, nursing. The Queen's Poor, working class, working-class, Martha Jane Loane
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Cooper, Thomas.
The Life of Thomas Cooper:
(Leicester UP, 1971).
With an introduction by John Saville. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A8323
Keywords: 0718550161, Thomas Cooper, autobiography, autobiographical, autobiographies, lives, life histories, life history, memoir, working, man, Chartists, Chartism, nineteenth century, 19th, Leicester, Leicestershire, working class, working-class, classes, Victorian, political, politics, John Saville
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Kaufman, M.
The Housing of the Working Classes and of the Poor:
(EP Publishing/Rowman and Littlefield, 1975 rpt of 1907 text).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 146pp. Order No. NSBK-A2577
Keywords: 0715811347, housing, working classes, history, poor, poverty, Britain, England, urban, urbanisation, British, English, houses, paupers
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Eden, Frederic Morton.
The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the Present Period
(Thoemmes Continuum, 2001 facsimile edition of 1797 edition).
PLEASE NOTE: TWO VOLUMES ONLY OF THREE (Vol I and Vol II). Hardbacks. Very good condition. Set sadly lacks vol 3. xxxi + 632; viii + 692pp. Order No. NSBK-A13850
Keywords: 1855062623, poverty, poor, poor relief, friendly societies, friendly society, labouring classes, working classes, pauperism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Frederic Morton Eden, parochial reports, diet, dress, habitation, domestic economy, philanthropy, poor houses, workhouses, 18th century, eighteenth century
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Thornton, William T.
Over-Population and its Remedy: an Inquiry into the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British Islands and into the Means of Remedying It
(Irish University Press, 1971 rpt of 1846 edition).
Hardback. Very good. xi + 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A5918
Keywords: 9780716517511, over-population, population, demography, demographic, labour, labor, laboring classes, labouring classes, laborers, labourers, Britain, British, England, English, history, poor, pauperism, poor laws, Malthus, Malthusian, Victorian, nineteenth century, economic, economic, resources, working classes
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Taking Liberties Collective, Jo Campling, ed.
Learning the Hard Way: Women's Oppression in Men's Education
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. Pencil annotation to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C14100
Keywords: 0333432835, education, women, men, femininity, gender, masculinity, equality, working classes, further education, higher education, feminism, oppression
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Ereira, Alan.
The People's England:
(RKP, 1981).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. Newspaper review pasted to inner board. xviii + 285pp. Order No. NSBK-A11832
Keywords: 0710005962, social history, Alan Ereira, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, miners, factory, factories, factory system, shopkeepers, servants, working classes, workers
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