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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Hunt, E. H..
British Labour History, 1815-1914:
(Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1981).
Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise good. xii + 428pp. Order No. NSBK-A3942
Keywords: 0297777866, Britain, British, England, English, history, labour, work, employment, workforce, wages, working week, trade union, trade unionism, working class, working-class, class, Labour Party, women, Irish immigration
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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Butler, Josephine E.
Social Purity:
(Portrayer, 2002 reprint of 1879 text).
No 3 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 19pp. Order No. NSBK-C6303
Keywords: B001BI2Q0M, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
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Rodaway, Angela.
A London Childhood:
(Virago, rpt with new intro,1985).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to inner cover, otherwise very good. xvii + 158pp. Order No. NSBK-C15903
Keywords: 9780860686408, autobiographies, autobiography, women, social history, London, working class, classes, stored near piano
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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
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West Yorkshire Homeworking Group, .
A Penny A Bag: Campaigning on Homework
(Yorkshire and Humberside Low Pay Unit, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. 139pp. Order No. NSBK-C15499
Keywords: 1870288076, England, English, Britain, British, history, homework, women, piecework, women's history, Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
Price £14.00.
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Feminist Review, ed, .
Waged Work: A Reader
(Virago, 1986).
Paperback. Back cover foxed, otherwise good. vi + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-A9136
Keywords: 0860688011, try to find under r for review, work, wages, waged work, labour, labor, employment, sex, sex discrimination, equal opportunities, trade unions, trade unionism, women's history, black women, homeworking, European Community, feminism, feminists, earning, gender, women's work, women and work
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Bristol Women's Studies Group, .
Half the Sky: an Introduction to Women's Studies
(Virago, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Good. x + 306pp. Order No. NSBK-C389
Keywords: 086068086X, women's studies, feminism, gender, Virago, Bristol
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