Horsfield, Margaret.
Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
(Fourth Estate, 1998).
Paperback. Fading to spine, light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C6189
Keywords: 1857026756, domestic, domesticity, women and work, women's work, woman, women's history, housewives, housewife, housewifery, homemaking, homemaker, houses, home, household, chores, housemaids, Mrs Beeton, cleanliness, cleaning, Hannah Cullwick, Cleanliness Institute, cleaners, flappers, dusting
Price £4.00.
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Sandford, Mrs Henry.
Home Work and Duties:
(W. & R. Chambers, 1885).
Girls' Reading-Book. Hardback. Some wear to edges & fraying to spine ends. Red / black cloth with gilt lettering slightly darkened, otherwise a good copy. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C13123
Keywords: Victorian, 1880s, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, duties, responsibilities, duty, responsibility, social history, women's history, Mrs Henry Sandford, women's education, girls, girlhood, domestic economy, food, clothing, sewing, needlework, knitting, ventilation, cleaning, washing, health, sickness, Britain, British, England, English, hygiene,
Price £25.00.
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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
Price £24.00.
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Leadbeater, Eliza.
Handspinning:
(Studio Vista, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C9765
Keywords: 0289705983, handspinning, spinning, spinning wheels, industry, women's work, woman, history, women's history, women and work, domestic industry
Price £7.00.
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Pennington, Shelley & Westover, Belinda.
A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850 - 1985
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in browned dustwrapper. xi + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C15640
Keywords: 9780333432969, homeworker, labour work, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, workforce, domestic, domesticity, working women, pennington, westover, sweated labour, housework, tailoring, tailor, tailoring industry, 19th century
Price £9.00.
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Johnson, Peter, ed.
The Structure of British Industry:
(Unwin Hyman, 2nd edit., 1988).
Paperback. Some creasing/fading to spine -otherwise good. xi + 401pp. Order No. NSBK-A9819
Keywords: 0043381464, Britain, British, England, English, history, structure, agriculture, North Sea oil, gas, coal, steel, pharmaceuticals, synthetic fibres, information technology, motor vehicles, food processing, construction, retailing, rail transport, domestic air transport, domestic air transport, insurance, medical care, tourism, twentieth century, 20th
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Van Every, Jo.
Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to Be a Wife
(Taylor & Francis, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C14018
Keywords: 0748402837, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, heterosexuality, sexuality, twentieth century, 20th, family, families, sexual roles, household, anti-sexist, households, domestic labour, marriage, mothers, mothering, feminism, feminists
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Mace, Jane.
Playing with Time: Mothers and the Meaning of Literacy
(UCL Press, 1998).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xiii + 185pp. Order No. NSBK-C8834
Keywords: 1857288912, mothers, motherhood, women, children, child, literacy, education, educational, maternal, reading, writing, grandmothers, domestic, adult literacy, family, families
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Lewis, Jon E.
True World War I Stories: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War
(Robinson, rpt, 1999).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+. 425pp. Order No. NSBK-A14176
Keywords: 1841190950, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, autobiographies, autobiography, memories, Somme, Loos, Ypres, Western Front
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Parr, Joy.
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Scarce. Hardback. Good condition, in faded and lightly soiled dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A3988
Keywords: 0773505172, immigrants, apprentices, apprenticeship, Canada, Canadian history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, emigrants, emigration, child, children, childhood, labor, labour, adoption, philanthropy, philanthropic, agricultural, domestic service, domestic servants, Evangelicals, migration
Price £11.99.
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