John, Angela.
By the Sweat of Their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coalmines
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, otherwise good+ in faded dustwrapper. 245pp. Order No. NSBK-D7113
Keywords: 9780856647482, work, Victorian England, women, coal mines, coal-mining, collieries, pits, labour, industry, pit brow lasses, history, Britain, British, England, English, women and work, women's work, women's history, coal, pit, working-class women, mine, mining, miner, coal pits, mining communities, coal pit
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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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Stearns, Peter N.
Lives of Labour: Work in a Maturing Industrial Society
(Croom Helm, 1975).
Hardback. Minor ink annotation, otherwise good in slightly creased, slightly chipped dustwrapper. viii + 424pp. Order No. NSBK-A4884
Keywords: 085664210X, labour, labor, history, industry, industrial, mature capitalism, industrialising, work, Britain, England, France, Belgium, Germany, British, English, French, Belgian, German, working classes, working class, economy, employment, occupations, economic
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Hammond, J.L. & Hammond, Barbara.
The Town Labourer:
(Longman, 1978).
Paperback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good. xlvii + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A7559
Keywords: 0582480817, Hammond, urban labourers, town, work, industry, employment, poor, poverty, unemployment, urbanisation, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history, town, towns, work, Britain, British, England, English, Hammonds, poor, factories, factory, factory system, power looms, industrial revolution, workers, class, working class, working classes, child labour, labour, labor, Lord Shaftesbury, trade unions, economic history, economy
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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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Thompson, Dorothy, ed.
The Early Chartists:
(South Carolina UP, 1971).
Paperback. Edges rubbed, otherwise very good. xii + 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A1435
Keywords: 0872492311, radicalism, radical, Chartist, politics, working class, working-class, Victorian, politics, class, britain, british, socil history, history, chartist, chartists, chartism, chartist movement, radicals, nineteenth century, 19th century, chartist propoganda, propoganda, social protest, franchise, militancy, militants, militant, working classes, working-classes
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Gray, Robert Q.
The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh:
(Clarendon Press, 1976).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in faded dustwrapper. ix + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A9278
Keywords: 0198224427, labour, labor, aristocracy, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, Scotland, Scottish, Scotch, Britain, British, working class, working-class
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Bamford, Samuel.
Passages in the Life of a Radical:
(OUP, 1984 rpt of 1884 text).
Preface by Tim Hilton. Paperback. Back cover slightly soiled, otherwise good. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-A814
Keywords: 0192814133, radical, Britain, British, England, English, history, radicals, radicalism, samule banford, autobiography, autobiographies, working class, working classes, hampden clubs, peterloo massacre, manchester, weavers, nineteenth century, 19th century
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Berg, Maxine, ed.
Technology and Toil in Nineteenth Century Britain: Documents
(CSE Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-A4939
Keywords: 0906336031, Britain, British, history, England, English, toil, labour, labor, work, nineteenth century,m Victorian, industry, pin money, weaving, factory, factories, textiles, steel making, steam engines, lead foundries, shipbuilding, boot and shoe trade, workshop, industrialisation, industrialization, coal, saw mills, machines, working class, working classes, working-class
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Harrison, J.F.C. & Thompson, Dorothy.
Bibliography of the Chartist Movement, 1837-1976:
(Harvester Press, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvi + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A627
Keywords: 0855273348, bibliography, bibliographies, Chartism, Chartists, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, politics, working class, working classes, working-class, class system, democracy
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