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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Huehns, G., ed.
Clarendon: Selections from the History of the Rebellion & the Life by Himself
(OUP, rpt, 1978).
Intro. by Hugh Trevor Roper. Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. xxx + 492pp. Order No. NSBK-Z3568
Keywords: B000SBNVSY, Hugh Trevor Roper, rebellion, English Civil War, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Charles I, history, political philosophy, autobiography, revolution, William Laud, Oliver Cromwell, seventeenth century
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Warren, Kenneth.
The British Iron and Steel Sheet Industry Since 1840:
(G. Bell, 1970).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A9881
Keywords: 0713515481, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, history, iron, steel, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, twentieth, 20th
Price £8.00.
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Daitch, Susan.
L.C:
(Virago, 1986).
Novel - about Lucienne Crozier, radical socialist & feminist at the time of the 1848 Revolution in France. Paperback. Edge worn, o/w good. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-C1782
Keywords: 0860687635, Lucienne Crozier, radical socialist, 1848 Revolution, french, france, women's history, socialism, feminism, socialists
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Rahikainen, Marjatta.
Centuries of Child Labour: European Experience from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
(Ashgate, 2004).
Hardback. Fine. ix + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A10255
Keywords: 0754604985, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, European, Europe, child, children, labour, labor, work, peasants, factories, factory, Agricultural Revolution
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Emsley, Clive; Marwick, Arthur; & Simpson, Wendy.
War, Peace and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Europe:
(Open UP, rpt, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 333pp. Order No. NSBK-A3946
Keywords: 033509290X, Europe, European, war, peace, twentieth century, twentieth-century, social change, cultural change, revolution, Weberian, Marxist, feminist, idiographic, War, Peace and Social Change Series
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
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Uyeda, Teijiro.
Japanese Economic History, 1930 - 1960: The Small Industries of Japan: Their Growth and Development. Volume X
(Routledge, rpt, 2002).
Selected and with a new introduction by Janet Hunter. Hardback. A little thumbing to otherwise clean, bright cloth. Minor bumping to corners, otherwise very good. xxii + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-A13395
Keywords: 041521825X, Japan, Japanese, economy, economic, history, twentieth century, industry, industrial, trade, small industries, textiles, cotton, wool, rayon, wages, bicycle industry, rubber, labour, labor
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Dittmer, Lowell.
China Under Reform:
(Westview Press, 1994).
Politics in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Paperback. Very good. xii + 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A6992
Keywords: 0813311209, international, politics, political, economics, economy, China, Chinese, Lowell Dittmer, history, twentieth century, 20th, communism, communists, CCP, revolutions, revolutionary
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Upham, Martin.
Tempered - Not Quenched: The History of the ISTC, 1951-1997
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 295pp. Order No. NSBK-A11375
Keywords: 085315855X, ISTC, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, work, twentieth century, 20th
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