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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Jones, P. M.
The Peasantry in the French Revolution:
(CUP, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xiv + 306pp. Order No. NSBK-A7643
Keywords: 052133716X, peasants, peasantry, peasant, French Revolution, France, eighteenth century, 18th century, Europe, European, European, class, serfs, serfdom, rural, agrarian, Ancien Regime, revolt, social history, Rural Code, Terror, land, Counter-Terror, rising expectation, Georges Lefebvre, National Assembly, seigneurialism
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Purvis, June and Hales, Margaret, eds.
Achievement and Inequality in Education: A Reader
(RKP / Open University, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, creasing and wear to covers. A working copy. 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A12594
Keywords: 0710200102, education, inequality, comprehensive education, class, educational policy, June Purvis, Margaret Hales, sociology
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Wrigley, Julia, ed.
Education and Gender Equality:
(Falmer Press, 1992).
Paperback. A little light yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. ix + 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C14161
Keywords: 1850009465, gender, education, equality, gender differences, schools, class, inequality, sexual discrimination, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, ethnographic
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Shaw, Jenny.
Intellectual Property, Representative Experience and Mass-Observation:
(Uni Sussex, 1998).
Booklet. Good. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-A5235
Keywords: 0850870402, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, working classes, working class, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, Occasional Papers, group experience, Jenny Shaw, groups, booklet
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Birch, Lionel, ed.
The History of the T.U.C., 1868-1968: a Pictorial Survey of a Social Revolution
(General Council TUC, 1968).
Paperback. Large format. Spine creased & covers slightly yellowed, overall very good. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-A2482
Keywords: B0000CO80S, trade union, labour history, class, revolution, British history, class, work, TUC,Britain, British, England, English, history
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Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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Levine, David.
Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population Studies
(CUP, 1987).
Hardback. Slight soiling to front cover, otherwise good+. ix + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A11980
Keywords: 9780521332569, political economy, population, demography, population, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ywentieth century, 20th, fertility, class, medieval, cottage economy, agrarian, industrialisation
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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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Harrison, J.F.C.
A History of the Working Men's College, 1854-1954:
(RKP, 1954).
Hardback. A little soiling to cloth, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+. xix + 215pp. Order No. NSBK-A4091
Keywords: B0000CIYZB, Working Men's College, education, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, class, George Tansley, adult education, mature students, WEA, Working Men's Association, clubs, Britain, British, England, English, working classes, working class, class, higher education, illiteracy, illiterate, literate, literacy, working men's colleges
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