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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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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Horn, Pamela.
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant:
(Gill and Macmillan, 1975).
Hardback. With minor pencil annotation, and newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15682
Keywords: 717107469, Victorian, servants, nineteenth century, women, history, work, domesticity, employment, class, domestics, maids, maidservants, Britain, British, England, English, domestic service, housework, below stairs
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Lummis, Trevor and Marsh, Jan.
The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House
(Viking, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xii + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C13893
Keywords: 0670816809, Hardwick Hall, women's history, women, Trevor Lummis, Jan Marsh, Arlington Court, Wallington, Belton House, Saltram, English country houses, Bess of Hardwick, domestic servants, domestic service
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Marshall, Dorothy.
The English Domestic Servant in History:
(Historical Association, 1949).
Booklet. Light soiling to covers, otherwise good. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-C13363
Keywords: B0000CO8HZ, domestic service, domestic servants, work, women workers, servants, maid servants, housemaids, household, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, female, labour, labor, booklet
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Malcolmson, R.W.
Life and Labour in England, 1700-1780:
(Hutchinson, 1981).
Paperback. Covers browned. Page edges slightly soiled, light crease to front cover, otherwise good. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A8959
Keywords: 0091443814, land, labour, labor, England, English, Britain, British, history, work, workers, labourers, laborers, eighteenth century, 18th, craftsmen, cottagers, servants, casual labourers, housewives, husbandmen, social history, living, culture, plebeian, authority, relationships, villages, villagers, rural, country, countryside, agriculture, agricultural, farmers, farming, education, charity, crime, religion, politics
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