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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Chester, Gail and Nielsen, Sigrid, eds.
In Other Words: Writing as a Feminist
(Hutchinson, 1987).
Paperback. Spine creased, mark inside where newspaper cutting has been pasted to fly leaf, otherwise very good. 250pp. Order No. NSBK-C10143
Keywords: 0091646812, women writers, woman writer, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th, female
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Horn, Susan Householder Van.
Women, Work and Fertility, 1900-1986:
(New York UP, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped, slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. xi + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A12338
Keywords: 0814787592, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, fertility, children, child, babies, motherhood, baby, contraception, work, women's work, women and work
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Lawrence, Elizabeth.
Gender and Trade Unions:
(Taylor & Francis, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-C4214
Keywords: 0748401474, gender, trade unions, trade unionism, sociology, women, trade union, work, industry, twentieth century, feminism, Britain, British, England, English, shop stewards, NALGO
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Gordon, Linda, ed.
Women, the State and Welfare:
(Wisconsin UP, 1992).
Paperback. Light creasing to spine and rubbing to edges, otherwise very good. 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C5459
Keywords: 9780299126643, welfare, social welfare, race, class, America, American, United States of America, USA, women's, women, woman, social security, twentieth century, state, state welfare, state support, unemployment, welfare programmes, public welfare, poor women, poverty, social policy, Linda Gordon
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Jones, Stephen G.
The British Labour Movement and Film, 1918-1939:
(RKP, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. vii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A6111
Keywords: 0710209738, Britain, British, Labour, Labor, Film, films, cinemas, media, photography, photographs, cinematic, pictures, work, working class, twentieth century, interwar, Britain, British, England, English, inter war, interwar, inter-war
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Hollett, David.
The Pioneer Ramblers, 1850 - 1940:
(Ramblers' Association, North Wales Area, 2002).
Foreword by Nick Barrett. Paperback. New book, fine. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6867
Keywords: 1901184544, Victorian, nineteenth century, history, social history, socialism, socialist, socialists, utopian, utopias, utopia, Robert Blatchford, Clarion Club, Clarion Movement, Clarion, Clarion Newspaper, Clarion Clubs, Clarion Fellowship, rambling clubs, ramblers, rambling club, exercise, hobbies, entertainment, working class, working classes, Britain, British, England, English, nature, natural, rambling, countryside, rambles, country, rural, North Wales Ramblers' Association, Ramblers' Association, Ramblers' Clubs, Duke of Atholl, walking, walkers, Access, access, open spaces, commons, tramping, recreation, Clarion Ramblers, pedestrians, trespassers, trespass, holidays, holiday, FHA, Friendship Holidays Association, Holiday Fellowship, hiking, long distance walking, youth hostels, youth hostelling, Edwardian, twentieth century, Commons Preservation Society
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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
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Miller, H. Tatlock and Sainthill, Louis.
Churchill: The Walk with Destiny
(Hutchinson, 1959).
Comprises black and white photographs of Churchill's time in office. Hardback. Over-size book, spine ends badly bumped, covers lightly worn, internally good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A12296
Keywords: B000B5H28C, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
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Mitchison, Naomi.
All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage
(Bodley Head, 1975).
The 2nd part of her autobiography. HB. Ex lib, good in sl soiled dw with newspapers pasted in at end. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-C716
Keywords: 0370104854, Naomi Mitchison, girlhood, marriage, autobiography, autobiographical, twentieth century,
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