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
Price £24.00.
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Kollontai, Alexandra.
Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle: Love and the New Morality
(Falling Wall Press, 1972).
Translated and introduced by Alix Holt. Booklet. Very good. iv + 26pp. Order No. NSBK-A15785
Keywords: booklets, stored with pamphlets, women, Russia, Russian, history, Alexandra Kollontai
Price £12.50.
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Westaway, K. M.
Old Girls in New Times: The Story of Some of the Work done by the Old Girls of Bedford High School During Nearly Six Years of War, 1939-1945
(F.R. Hockliffe Ltd, 1945).
Hardback. Torn paper cover loose, stitching exposed, otherwise good. 102pp. Order No. NSBK-C12669
Keywords: B0007JZKHW, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, employment, girls, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Bedford High School, Bedfordshire, girls' schools, war work, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
Price £26.00.
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Alden, Carella.
From Early American Paintbrushes: Colony to New Nation
(Parents' Magazine Press, 1971).
Illustrated. Based on the production from Yankee Paintbrushes, presented in the art Entertainment series for young people at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hardback. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A10076
Keywords: 0819304778, colony, colonies, American, USA, United States, US, painters, paintings, art, artists, colony, colonies
Price £3.00.
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Marstrand, Pauline, ed.
New Technology and the Future of Work and Skills:
(Frances Pinter, 1984).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, otherwise good+. xvi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A14981
Keywords: 0861763882, technology, work, unemployment, automated systems, employment
Price £18.00.
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Taylor, Barbara.
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
(Harvard UP, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xviii + 402pp. Order No. NSBK-A15616
Keywords: 9780674270237, chartism, socialism, feminism, Victorian, utopian, utopianism, trade unions, trade unionism, women, history, Barbara Taylor, nineteenth century, Victorian, Robert Owen, Owenism, Owenites, Britain, British, England, English, history, Virago, chartists, chartist, chartist movement, 19th century, women, women's history
Price £9.00.
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Benson, Allan L.
The New Henry Ford:
(Funk and Wagnalls, 1923).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, cloth rather worn and faded with light soiling. Contents good and firm. 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A14289
Keywords: B000WG9UYY, Henry Ford, biography, biographies, Ford, Ford Motor Company, cars, automobiles, car, history, manufacturing, racing, Detroit, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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Butler, Josephine E.
Truth Before Everything:
(Portrayer Publishers, March 2003 reprint of the work of 1897).
No 7 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New book, fine. 38pp. Order No. NSBK-C6502
Keywords: B001C3VRLA, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, new title, Josephine E. Butler, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Open Archive Occasional Series, Truth Before Everything, booklet
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Butler, Josephine E.
Social Purity:
(Portrayer, 2002 reprint of 1879 text).
No 3 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 19pp. Order No. NSBK-C6303
Keywords: B001BI2Q0M, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
What a Woman May Be, and Yet Not Have the Vote: What a Man May Be, and Yet Not Lose the Vote
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image is printed in vibrant lithographic colours and depicts a row of women in respectable jobs and beneath this a row of male convicts, lunatics etc. (Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked with a Portrayer insignia and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Brand new fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14447
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, envelopes, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth centuries, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, women and work, professions
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