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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Summerhayes, Martha.
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
(Nebraska UP, 1979).
Introduction by Dan L. Thrapp. Paperback. Very good. xxvi + 397pp. Order No. NSBK-C12708
Keywords: 0803291051, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, army, military, soldiers, wives, wife
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Marstrand, Pauline, ed.
New Technology and the Future of Work and Skills:
(Frances Pinter, 1984).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, otherwise good+. xvi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A14981
Keywords: 0861763882, technology, work, unemployment, automated systems, employment
Price £18.00.
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Grigg, John.
Nancy Astor: A Revealing New Portrait of a Woman who Made History
(Hamlyn, 1980).
Illustrated with exclusive pictures from the Astor family album. Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A3947
Keywords: 0600205940, Nancy Astor, politics, politician, M. P., women and politics, Plymouth Sutton, Conservative party, Tory, party politics, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Britain, British, history, England, English, biography, women's history, twentieth century, Tories
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Alden, Carella.
From Early American Paintbrushes: Colony to New Nation
(Parents' Magazine Press, 1971).
Illustrated. Based on the production from Yankee Paintbrushes, presented in the art Entertainment series for young people at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hardback. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A10076
Keywords: 0819304778, colony, colonies, American, USA, United States, US, painters, paintings, art, artists, colony, colonies
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Jackowska, Nicki.
Lighting a Slow Fuse: New and Selected Poems
(Enitharmon Press, 1998).
Paperback. Bottom cover bumped, otherwise very good. 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A9260
Keywords: 1900564114, poems, poets, poetry, Nicki Jackowska, literary, literature, women's history
Price £5.50.
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Kollontai, Alexandra.
Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle: Love and the New Morality
(Falling Wall Press, 1972).
Translated and introduced by Alix Holt. Booklet. Very good. iv + 26pp. Order No. NSBK-A15785
Keywords: booklets, stored with pamphlets, women, Russia, Russian, history, Alexandra Kollontai
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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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Jordan, Tim and Lent, Adam.
Storming the Millennium: The New Politics of Change
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1999).
Paperback. Very good. vi + 218pp. Order No. NSBK-A12738
Keywords: 0853158738, politics, political, politicians, government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK millennium
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McCloskey, Donald, N., ed.
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the MSSB Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970
(Methuen, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dw. xv + 439pp. Order No. NSBK-A4659
Keywords: 0416082408, Mathematical Social Science Board, economy, economists, economics, demography, capital, capitalism, Britain, British, history, steam, 416082408, Victorian, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, Atlantic economy, American iron production
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