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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St John Ambulance Association, .
First Aid: the Authorised Manual of the St. John Ambulance Association
(St. John Ambulance Association, 2nd edition, 3rd impression, 1970).
Card covers. Paperback. Light soiling to front cover, otherwise good+. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A7293
Keywords: St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books, philanthropy, bandages, 1960s, advice books, manuals
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Supple, Barry, ed.
Essays in British Business History:
(Clarendon, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, a little discolouration to covers, otherwise a good copy. viii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A5554
Keywords: 019877088X, business, business history, Britain, British, England, English, businesses, economy, economic, entrepreneurs, Barry Supple, manufacturing, industry, industrial, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, industries, technology
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Nicolson, Nigel.
Portrait of a Marriage:
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, rpt, 1990).
Illustrated edition. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A8505
Keywords: 0297830023, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, biography, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th century, Nicolson, marriage, writers
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Neu, Charles E.
The Troubled Encounter: The United States and Japan
(Robert E. Kreiger, rpt., 1981).
Paperback. Covers and spine slightly worn, otherwise good+. x + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A11233
Keywords: 0882759515, Japan, Japanese, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Pacific War, twentieth century, 20th
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Gladwin, D.D.
The Waterways of Britain: a Social Panorama
(B.T. Batsford, 1976).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A4271
Keywords: 0713431598, social history, canals, canal, waterways, transport, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, navigation, canal boats, canal people, boat people, boat men, boat women, navvies, inland waterways, rivers, carriers, river, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, travelling people, travellers, travelers, traveller, traveller
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Kirkby, Diane.
The Power of Pen and Voice: The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer
(CUP, 1991).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. xxvi + 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A12390
Keywords: 0521391024, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Australia, Australian, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, twentieth century, 20th, writers, writing, labour reformer, labor, Alice Henry, social welfare
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Westall, Oliver, ed.
Innovation and Labour During British Industrialisation: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Harry Dutton, 1947-1984
(Huntington Publishers, 1985).
Hardback. Covers rubbed, otherwise good+. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A11979
Keywords: 0906389097, Harry Dutton, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, twentieth century, 20th, patents, food riots
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Gulvin, Clifford.
The Tweedmakers: A History of the Scottish Fancy Woollen Industry, 1600-1914
(David and Charles, 1973).
Hardback. Good+ in dustwrapper. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A13194
Keywords: 0715359738, Scottish, Scots, Scotsmen, Scotsman, Scotland, fancy woollen industry, seventeenth century, eighteenth, nineteenth, Edwardian, twentieth, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, history, United Kingdom, UK, tweedmakers, cloth, clothing, tweeds
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Lovell, John.
British Trade Unions, 1875-1933:
(Macmillan, rpt., 1986).
Paperback. Good+. 75pp. Order No. NSBK-A9828
Keywords: 0333179269, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, economics
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