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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Jones, Stephen G.
Workers at Play: a Social and Economic History of Leisure, 1918 - 1939
(RKP, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. viii + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A4346
Keywords: 0710206356, leisure, recreations, recreation, social history, interwar, inter war, inter-war, hobbies, sport, gambling, boxing, men, women, economic, holidays, drinking, pub, pubs, public houses, popular culture, cinema, working class, working classes, pastimes, voluntary organisations, clubs, working men's clubs, labour, entertainment, Britain, British, England, English
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Butler, Josephine E.
Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade: Against the State Regulation Of Vice
(Portrayer, 2002 reprint of 1874 text).
No 1 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-C6304
Keywords: B001C3VNMS, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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Pennington, Shelley & Westover, Belinda.
A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850 - 1985
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in browned dustwrapper. xi + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C15640
Keywords: 9780333432969, homeworker, labour work, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, workforce, domestic, domesticity, working women, pennington, westover, sweated labour, housework, tailoring, tailor, tailoring industry, 19th century
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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
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Hewitt, Patricia.
About Time: Revolution in Work and Family Life
(IPPR, Rivers Oram, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 183pp. Order No. NSBK-A14945
Keywords: 1854890409, Patricia Hewitt, work, family life, life cycle, families, employment, working women, flexible working hours
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Reay, Barry.
Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England
(Reaktion Books Limited, 2002).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-H13042
Keywords: 1861891199. Hannah Cullwick, Arthur Munby, servants, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, body, bodies, working class, working classes, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Rose, Sonya O.
Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England
(Routledge, 1992).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to rear endpaper, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A5017
Keywords: 9780415056540, Victorian, history, nineteenth century, gender, women, England, English, Britain, British, capitalism, industry, work, industrialisation, Industrial Revolution, economy, economic, working women, women's history, working class, working classes, sexual discrimination, gender roles
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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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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