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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Mortimer, James E and Ellis, Valerie A.
A Professional Union: The Evolution of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants
(George Allen and Unwin, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. ix + 450pp. Order No. NSBK-A8500
Keywords: 0043310761, professionals, civil servants, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, Britain, British, England, English, history, class, Institution of Professional Civil Servants, white collar, IPCS, TUC, militants, pay, industrial relations, civil service, politics, sociology, twentieth century, 20th
Price £7.99.
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
Price £19.50.
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Woloch, Isser, ed.
The Peasantry in the Old Regime: Conditions and Protests
(Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970).
Paperback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and sticker, some light creasing / edge wear to covers - otherwise good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-A13347
Keywords: 0030798302, ancien regime, old regime, history, peasants, peasantry, class, society, protest, poverty, peasant uprisings, riots, 18th century, eighteenth century, popular protest, agrarian, village, peasant revolution of 1789, France, French
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Rude, George.
Ideology and Popular Protest:
(Lawrence & Wishart, 1980).
Paperback. Covers a little worn, otherwise good. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A3939
Keywords: 853155143, ideology, popular protest, history, Europe, revolution, peasants, class consciousness, folk memory, riots, rebellion, labour disputes, Europe, European, United States, America, American, masses
Price £5.00.
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McCord, Norman.
Strikes:
(Basil Blackwell, 1980).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine ends bumped, otherwise good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. 136pp. Order No. NSBK-A11668
Keywords: strikes, industrial action
Price £4.00.
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Avineri, Shlomo.
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx:
(CUP, rpt, 1969).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly sun-faded dustwrapper. viii + 269pp. Order No. NSBK-A15806
Keywords: 9780521040716, political thought, Karl Marx, Marxism, history, class, revolution
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Beckerman, Wilfred.
Slow Growth in Britain: Causes and Consequences
(Clarendon Press, 1979).
Paperback. Very good +. vi + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-A10121
Keywords: 0198284217, Britain, British, England, English, history, industry, industrial, economics, economic, twentieth century, 20th, British Association for the Advancement of Science Economics, slow growth, productivity, manufacturing
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Herzog, Marianne.
From Hand to Mouth: Women and Piecework
(Penguin, rpt., 1980).
Paperback. Good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-C4791
Keywords: 0140220895, women, women and work, history, women's history, German, Germany, Europe, European, West Germany, Philips, Siemens, piecework, wages, unemployment, employment, jobs, factory work, industry, industries, industrial, labor, labour, labor market, labour market. twentieth century
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Larkin, P. J.
European History for Certificate Classes: 1789 - 1970
(Hulton Educational, rpt, 1982).
Paperback. Some light creasing to covers and wear to edges, light soiling to page edges, otherwise good. 350pp. Order No. NSBK-A14194
Keywords: 0717507483, European history, revision, Europe, Napoleon, revolutions, Russia, Italy, France, Germany
Price £6.00.
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