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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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
(Macgibbon and Kee, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxxvi + 431pp. Order No. NSBK-A14555
Keywords: 0901740888, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, trade unionism, industrial democracy, industrialisation, working classes, trade disputes, wages, pay, Labour Party, shop stewards
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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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Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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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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Wallas, Graham.
The Life of Francis Place, 1771-1854:
(George Allen and Unwin, rpt., 1918).
Hardback. Pages browned, covers worn, otherwise a good copy. xiv + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A10349
Keywords: B000HU8TTM, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation, working-class, classes, radicals, Britain, British, England, English, history, Francis Place, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, lives, eighteenth century, 18th
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Selley, Ernest.
Village Trade Unions in Two Centuries:
(George Allen & Unwin, 1919).
Paperback. Covers darkened / soiled with some wear to edges, otherwise a good working copy. 183pp. Order No. NSBK-A8667
Keywords: B00085LYAW, villages, rural, village, trade unions, trade unionism, associations, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, 20th century, twentieth century, organisation, Britain, British, England, English, labouring classes, labour, labor, class, rural labourers, laborers, agriculture, agricultural, wages, wage, minimum wage, Joseph Arch
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Glass, David, ed.
Social Mobility in Britain:
(RKP, 1954).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Cloth worn espec at edges, otherwise a good working copy. viii + 412pp. Order No. NSBK-A527
Keywords: B0010XSGM0, class, classes, class structure, social mobility, status, occupations, sociology
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Matthews, Mike.
Alf Cobb: Mugsborough Rebel. The Struggle for Justice in Edwardian Hastings
(Hastings Press, rpt, 2003).
Paperback. Fine. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-A6675
Keywords: 190410911X, Hastings, history, social history, Sussex, Britain, British, England, English, Alf Cobb, Robert Tressell, Social Democratic Federation, socialist, socialists, socialism, mob orators, rebels, Mugsborough, working class, working classes, political rebels, radicalism, Edwardian, twentieth century, labour movement, politics, local politics, local government, oratory, local councils, local corporations, local councillors
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Cage, R. A. ed.
The Working Class in Glasgow, 1750 - 1914:
(Croom Helm, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 203pp. Order No. NSBK-A15275
Keywords: 9780709934158, Glasgow, poor, working classes, Scotland, Scottish, history, social history, Victorian, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Edwardian, housing, poverty, public health
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