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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Horn, Pamela.
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant:
(Gill and Macmillan, 1975).
Hardback. With minor pencil annotation, and newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15682
Keywords: 717107469, Victorian, servants, nineteenth century, women, history, work, domesticity, employment, class, domestics, maids, maidservants, Britain, British, England, English, domestic service, housework, below stairs
Price £11.95.
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Allen, Sheila and Wolkowitz, Carol.
Homeworking: Myths and Realities
(Macmillan, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. x + 225pp. Order No. NSBK-A8666
Keywords: 033342364X, homeworking, women workers, domestic economy, hidden workforce, gender, casual labour, labor, twentieth century, women and work, sociology
Price £5.50.
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Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
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Joannou, Maroula.
'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change, 1918-38
(Berg, 1995).
Hardback. Slight crease to back cover, otherwise very good. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-H8038
Keywords: 0854969098, women's writing, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman, female, feminism, feminists, consciousness, social change, twentieth century, 20th, politics, feminist-materialist, class, lesbianism, lesbians, domestic, domesticity, literature, literary, novels, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamund Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall, autobiographies, autobiography
Price £9.00.
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Calder, Jenni.
The Victorian Home:
(Book Club, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C3742
Keywords: 0713408170, domestic sphere, housing, home, domesticity, women, woman, housing, Victorian, nineteenth century, homes, family, Jenni Calder, Britain, British, England, English
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Chrisp, Peter.
Evacuation:
(University of Susex Library, 1987).
Ringbound booklet. Very good. 20pp. Order No. NSBK-A13211
Keywords: 0850870194, Mass Observation, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, twentieth century, 20th Century, Blitz, Mass-Observation, Peter Chrisp, University of Sussex, 1939, 1940s, forties, home front, domestic front, social history, evacuation, evacuees, children, childhood, evacuation scheme, archive
Price £6.50.
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Moat, Florence and Sumner, Josephine.
The Concise Series of Practical Housecraft: I. Housewifery
(Longmans, Green, 1925).
Paperback. Original covers browned, spotted and worn. Spine split, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15120
Keywords: B00174ZJ6I, booklets, booklet, housewifery, domesticity, history, antiquarian, domestic, Florence Moat, housework, housewives, washing, cleaning, shopping, interwar, inter-war
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The Times, .
British War Production, 1939 - 1945: a Record
(Printing House Square, 1945).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, cloth slightly marked, otherwise very good. viii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A15072
Keywords: B000LBZSGY, Second World War, war production, World War II, economy, industry, heavy industry, home front, domestic, war effort, war effort, transport, history, industries
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Probert, Laura.
Women of Thanet Rally Round the Flag, 1914 - 1918:
(Millicent Press, 2011).
Paperback. New and unread, with just a little soiling to the page edges from shelf-life. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C15165
Keywords: 9780955867415, Thanet, Great War, First World War, history, social history, France, Western Front, women, Kent, aerial bombardment, domestic front, home front, women's work
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