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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Petavel, J. W.
Administrative Efficiency and What it Might Give Us: Reduced Military Expenditure with Increased Army Reserves, and the Solution of the Problems of the Unemployed, of Rehousing, and of Technical Education
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1906).
The Towns of the Future and Self-Supporting Armies. Hardback. Pages browned and a little brittle with age. First page detached. Ex-library with usual lib stamps, in library binding. Good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-A13365
Keywords: B0006F9FZU, Edwardian, army, army reserves, militarism, military expenditure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unemployment, unemployed, rehousing, housing, technical education, administrative efficiency, conscription, social reform, houses, military, labour, land, towns, town planning
Price £28.00.
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Lagroye, Jacques and Wright, Vincent, eds.
Local Government in Britain and France: Problems and Prospects
(George Allen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, otherwise good+. viii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A14998
Keywords: 0043520812, local government, history, Britain, France, problems, finance, urban development, towns, urbanisation, localities, local, regions, regionalism, local politics, British, French
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Murphy, Teresa Anne.
Ten Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England
(Cornell UP, 1992).
Hardback. Good in dustwrapper. xii + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C4052
Keywords: 0801426839, gender, religion, religious, reform, United States, America, American, New England, USA, history, work, labor, labour, women, men, workers, employers, mill towns, Boston, Fall River, factories, factory
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Graham, Frank.
The Geordie Netty: A Short History and Guide
(Howe Brothers, 1980).
Northern History Booklet No.1001. Paperback. Good+. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A11321
Keywords: B000RJVMEW, geordies, netty, netties, nettys, toilets, urination, W.C.s, water closets, urban, cities, city, towns, Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North-East, North East, history, booklet
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Walsh, Margaret, ed.
Motor Transport:
(Ashgate, 1997).
Studies in Transport History. Hardback. Fine. xxiii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A10253
Keywords: 1859283454, motors, motor industry, cars, automobiles, markets, marketing, bus, buses, transport, Locomobile, Britain, British, England, English, history, American, USA, United States, Canada, Canadian, twentieth century, 20th, travel
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Mackenzie, Suzanne.
Visible Histories: Women and Environments in a Post-War British City
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C12005
Keywords: 0773507124, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, work, women's work, women and work, employment, city, cities, towns, environments, Brighton
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Dyos, H.J., ed.
The Study of Urban History: The Proceedings of an International Round Table Conference of the Urban History Group at Gilbert Murray Hall, University of Leicester, Sept. 1966
(Edward Arnold, rpt, 1971).
Hardback. Fly leaf clipped, otherwise good in browned dustwrapper. xxii + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A266
Keywords: 0713154136, urban history, Britain, British, England, English, history, towns, cities, Victorian, nineteenth century, urbanisation, industrialisation
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Raistrick, Arthur.
West Riding of Yorkshire:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1979).
The Making of the English Landscape. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise a good copy in dustwrapper. 191pp. Order No. NSBK-A10560
Keywords: 340023724, West Riding, Yorkshire, landscapes, country, countryside, rural, enclose, vernacular, towns, cities, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English
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Treble, J.H.
Urban Poverty in Britain, 1830 - 1914:
(Batsford Academic, 1979).
Hardback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6432
Keywords: 9780815398400, urban, poverty, Britain, British, towns, cities, town, city, poor, nineteenth century, twentieth century, industry, industrialisation, industrialization, low pay, casual labour, unemployment, sickness, widowhood, family, familes, economy, economics, history, England, English, paupers, pauper, pauperism
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