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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Christie's, .
Impressionist and Modern Paintings: Drawings, Sculpture and Editions Picasso. South Kensington Monday 27th June 1994
(Christie's, 1994).
Catalogue. Fine. 304pp. Order No. NSBK-A11186
Keywords: art, artists, painters, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, French, France
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Macintyre, Duncan.
The Great War: Causes and Consequences
(Blackie, 1979).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A11185
Keywords: 021690742X, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, causes, consequences
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Webb, Beatrice.
Beatrice Webb's Diaries, 1912-1924:
(Longmans, Green and Co, 1952).
Edited by Margaret L. Cole. With an introduction by Lord Beveridge. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, covers slightly worn, otherwise good in chipped, torn and worn dustwrapper. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C11987
Keywords: B0000CI9IH, Beatrice Webb, The Webbs, Sidney Webb, philanthropy, philanthropists, twentieth century, left- wing, socialism, socialists, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Anon, .
Morley Scrap Album:
(Morley College, 1973).
Paperback. Over size, covers slightly soiled, otherwise good, laid out like a scrapbook. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11924
Keywords: B000HC7CLG, Morley College, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe, twentieth century, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Ziegler, Philip.
London at War, 1939-1945:
(BCA, 1995).
Hardback. Stamped 'damaged' but no obvious faults, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 372pp. Order No. NSBK-A9576
Keywords: 1856193845, London, capital, wars, Second World War, twentieth century, World War II, Two, 2, cities, city, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Blaxall, Martha and Reagan, Barbara, eds.
Women and the Workplace: The Implications of Occupational Segregation
(Chicago UP, 1976).
Paperback. Covers very lightly soiled, otherwise very good. x + 326pp. Order No. NSBK-C10518
Keywords: 0226058220, women, women and work, women workers, women's studies, women's history, gender, employment, twentieth century, 20th, twentieth century, 20th, careers, labour, labor, sex, salary, salaries, wages, economy, economic, women's work, workplaces, USA, United States, US, feminism, feminists, occupations, occupational segregation, equal opportunities, equal rights, discrimination
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Lovell, Terry, ed.
British Feminist Thought: A Reader
(Basil Blackwell, 1990).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. ix + 385pp. Order No. NSBK-C12333
Keywords: 0631169148, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, history of ideas, twentieth century, 20th
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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers Control
(Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1968).
Hardback. Good+ in chipped dustwrapper. ix + 161pp. Order No. NSBK-A12551
Keywords: 0901740888, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, reading, witmeses, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, work, workers, sex discrimination, labour market, employers, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th
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Pimlott, Ben.
Frustrate their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics
(HarperCollins, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 417pp. Order No. NSBK-A11328
Keywords: 000255495X, Ben Pimlott, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John Kennedy, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Bill Clinton, Edgar Hoover, Arthur Koestler, Anthony Crosland, Noman Tebbit, Neil Kinnock, politics, political, politicians, government
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