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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Royal Commission on Equal Pay, .
Royal Commission on Equal Pay: 1944 - 46 Report
(HMSO, 1946).
Important source material on the gender division of labour in the 1940s. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some damage to binding at spine ends, (front cover detached by 2 inches at top), otherwise good. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A7688
Keywords: equal pay, pay, employment, Royal Commission on Equal Pay, reports, gender, gender division of labour, labour, history, labor, industry, industries, women, men, workers, teaching, public service, local government, employees, wages, economy, economic, professions, law, period sources, jobs, occupations, booklet
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Platts, A. and Hainton, G. H.
Education in Gloucestershire: a Short History
(Gloucestershire County Council, 1954).
Hardback. Top corners slightly bumped, otherwise very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A13401
Keywords: B0006E2TSG, schools, education, educational, Gloucestershire, Sunday Schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, teachers, teaching, child labour, schooling, elementary education, secondary education
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Schreiner, Olive.
Woman and Labor:
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. A little creasing / rubbing to spine, otherwise very good. 283pp. Order No. NSBK-C1821
Keywords: 0860680460, Olive Schreiner, literature, women and work, labour, labor, feminism, feminist, history, equal rights, equal opportunities, Virago, Viragos
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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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Flinn, M. W and Smout, T. C. eds.
Essays in Social History:
(Clarendon Press, 1974).
Edited for the Economic History Society. Paperback. Minor annotation, slightly shaky with tatty covers, a good working copy. xi + 289pp. Order No. NSBK-A5657
Keywords: 0198770170, social history, economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, labour, labor, Industrial Revolution, industry, Sunday Schools, Manchester, Poor Laws, class, classes, towns, urban history, social reform, mortality, trade unions, women's history, trade unionism
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Savage, Mike and Witz, Anne, eds.
Gender and Bureaucracy:
(Blackwells, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. 282pp. Order No. NSBK-A14116
Keywords: 0631185283, Mike Savage, Anne Witz, sociology, gender relations, labour, bureaucracy, finance, organisations, institutions
Price £28.50.
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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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Goodman, Dave.
How the Old Age Pension was Won: the Forgotten Story. No Thanks to Lloyd George
(Third Age Press, 2nd edition, 1998).
Paperback. Very good. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A14082
Keywords: 1898576122, old age pension, pensions, history, Lloyd George, social security, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, National Insurance, politics, Labour movement, popular politics, aged, old, retirement
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Maccoby, S.
English Radicalism: the End?
(George Allen Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, dustwrapper browned, soiled and chipped, otherwise good. 640pp. Order No. NSBK-A14583
Keywords: B001CEIN5C, work, industry, radicals, radicalism, twentieth century, protests, Dr Maccoby, popular, propaganda, class, Lloyd George, Labour, General Strike, Asquith, social reform, First World War
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