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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DeVault, Ileen A.
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
(Cornell University Press, rpt, 1995).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 194pp. Order No. NSBK-A14157
Keywords: 0801483077, Pittsburgh, clerical work, class, white collar labour, workers, clerical jobs, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, offices, office workers, twentieth century, careers, skilled workers, women, female
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Unnuth, Abhimanyu.
From Cane-Field to Parliament: A Profile of R. Ramnarain
(Prakashan, 1989).
Hardback. Ex library with a little wear to edges and corner, and usual library markings, otherwise good condition. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A15846
Keywords: Mauritius, workers, trade unions, unionists, R. Ramnarain, radicals, Mauritian, labour, sugar plantations, trade unionism, history
Price £48.00.
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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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Clark, Anna.
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
(Rivers Oram, 1995).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xv + 416pp. Order No. NSBK-C2179
Keywords: 9781854890757, gender, British, Britain, class, working class, marriage, courtship, Glasgow, Lancashire, London, factories, textiles, artisans, labour, labor, factory, social history
Price £13.95.
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May, Trevor C.
Trade Unions and Pressure Group Politics:
(Saxon House, 1975).
Hardback. A little yellowing and light soiling to boards, otherwise a very good copy. vii + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-A13298
Keywords: 034701058X, industry, trade unions, trade unionism, trades, pressure groups, Labour Party, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, direct action, government, collective action
Price £15.00.
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Common, Jack,ed.
Seven Shifts:
(EP Publishing, facsimile of 1938 ed edition, 1978).
Studies in British Labour History. Hardback. Very good condition in slightly browned dustwrapper. xi + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A15876
Keywords: 9780715813454, Studies in British Labour History,working class, social history, steel workers, gas workers, railway workers, working conditions, autobiographies, autobiography
Price £30.00.
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Vall, Mark van de.
Labor Organisations: A Macro- and Micro-Sociological Analysis on A Comparative Basis
(Cambridge University Press, 1970).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, corners rubbed, otherwise good. xi + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A15880
Keywords: 9780521076371, labour, trade unions, trade unionism, history
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Middlemas, Robert Keith.
The Clydesiders: A Left-Wing Struggle for Parliamentary Power
(Hutchinson, 1965).
Hardback. Ex library with some wear to cloth especially at spine and edges, usual library markings but good and solid. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A15946
Keywords: B0018TNLE4, Clydeside, ILP, Labour Party, socialism, politics, history, Scotland, Scottish, Glasgow
Price £13.99.
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Bower, Tom.
Gordon Brown:
(HarperCollins Publishers, 2004).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 492pp. Order No. NSBK-A14383
Keywords: 000717540X, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, biography, labour party politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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