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
Price £7.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
View Image
|
Costello, Neil and Richardson, Michael, eds.
Continuing Education for the Post-Industrial Society:
(The Open University Press, 1982).
Paperback. Very good+. x + 146pp. Order No. NSBK-A11113
Keywords: 0335101860, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, adult education, twentieth century, 20th
Price £7.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Pimlott, Ben.
Frustrate their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics
(HarperCollins, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 417pp. Order No. NSBK-A11328
Keywords: 000255495X, Ben Pimlott, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John Kennedy, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Bill Clinton, Edgar Hoover, Arthur Koestler, Anthony Crosland, Noman Tebbit, Neil Kinnock, politics, political, politicians, government
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Bell, Ken, et al.
An Ordinary Lot: Recollections of the Thirties and World War II
(Department Adult Continuing Education, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 39pp. Order No. NSBK-A14363
Keywords: B001OPWBX4, 1930s, thirties, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, memories, autobiography, recollections, youth, Yorkshire, Saltaire, Shipley
Price £7.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Hopwood, Francis J.S.
Wholesale and Retail Prices: Return to an Order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 6th August, 1903
(HMSO, 1903).
Hardback. Boards slightly worn, otherwise very good. xxxi + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-A15539
Keywords: 1169354181, economics, economic, wholesale, retail, prices, twentieth century, Britain, British, statistics
Price £25.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Driver, Emily and Droisen, Audrey, eds.
Child Sexual Abuse: Feminist Perspectives
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper cuttings pasted to inside front and back covers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. ix + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-C11304
Keywords: 0333442458, child sexual abuse, child, children, sex, sexuality, men, women, sex offenders, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, feminists, feminism
Price £11.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Irvine, D. G.
The Reading Ability of School-Leavers: A Study of the Extent of Reading Difficulties Among School-Leavers in Liverpool
(Institute of Extension Stud, Liv Univ, 1976).
Pamphlet. Good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A9835
Keywords: B000HC584Y, reading, school leavers, young, youth, Liverpool, Merseyside, literacy, twentieth century, 20th, reading ability, education, educational, schools, students, pupils, pamphlet
Price £6.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Waller, Jane and Vaughan-Rees, Michael.
Women in Uniform, 1939-45:
(Papermac, 1989).
Paperback. Near fine. xvi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C12468
Keywords: 0333488962, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, uniform, clothing, dress, NAAFI, WAAFS, WRENS, Land army, Land girls, nurses, nursing, sisters, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
Price £9.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Fletcher, Winston.
Keeping the Vision Alive: The Story of Barnado's 1905-2005
(Barnado's, 2005).
Richly illustrated with photographs. Paperback. Near fine. 157pp. Order No. NSBK-A12615
Keywords: 190465911X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Barnado's, charity, charities, philanthropy, children, child, twentieth century, 20th
Price £10.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Thompson, E.P.
Beyond the Cold War:
(Merlin Press, 1982).
Paperback. Good+. 36pp. Order No. NSBK-A13085
Keywords: 0850362865, Cold War, twentieth century, 20th, wars, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Europe, European
Price £3.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
|
|