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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Simpson, M. A. and Lloyd, T. H., eds.
Middle Class Housing in Britain:
(David and Charles, Archon Books, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly faded, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 217pp. Order No. NSBK-A14055
Keywords: B000VZXQGY, middle class, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, classes, class system, houses, homes, architecture, city, cities, towns, social conditions, Exeter, Glasgow, Hampstead, Royal Leamington Spa, Nottingham, Sheffield
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Maclean, Mavis.
Surviving Divorce: Women's Resources After Separation
(Macmillan, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 151pp. Order No. NSBK-A14114
Keywords: 0333465342, divorce, marriage, family, separation, women, economic, welfare, remarriage, labour market, splitting up, single women, sociology
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Scrase, Tony.
Wells: A Pictorial History
(Phillimore, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A7823
Keywords: 085033814X, Wells, Britain, Britsih, England, English, Somerset, towns, cities, city, cathedrals
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Mackenzie, Suzanne.
Visible Histories: Women and Environments in a Post-War British City
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C12005
Keywords: 0773507124, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, work, women's work, women and work, employment, city, cities, towns, environments, Brighton
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Brown, Phillip and Scase, Richard, eds.
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour
(Open UP, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A14097
Keywords: 0335099408, labour, labor, division of labour, working classes, low-paid jobs, unskilled labour, low pay, working conditions, temporary work, part-time work, labour market, economy, employment
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David, Joy.
Plymouth: The Waterfront City
(Allen of Derby, 2001).
Illustrated by Shirley Hole. Paperback. Very good+. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-A11962
Keywords: 0954097408, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Joy David, Plymouth, ports, harbours, waterfront, city, cities, towns
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Morris, R. J.
Cholera, 1832: the Social Reponse to an Epidemic
(Croom Helm, 1976).
General editors: J. F. C. Harrison and Stephen Yeo. Scarce. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in faded, chipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A13440
Keywords: 0856643777, cholera, epidemics, diseases, water, water supplies, sanitation, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sanitary, urban, urbanisation, medical, medicine, science, morality, class, Sunderland, Manchester, hospitals, Edinburgh, quarantine, public health, illness, sickness, towns, cities, town, city
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Kent, Graeme.
Poverty:
(B.T. Batsford, 1968).
Past into Present Series. Illustrated in black and white with pictures and photographs. Hardback. Spine ends rubbed, otherwise good in tatty dustwrapper. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A12995
Keywords: 0713417544, poverty, poor, towns, urban, cities, workers, instituitions, Poor law, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, images, pictures
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
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