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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Anderson, B. L. and Stoney, P. J. M., eds.
Commerce, Industry and Transport: Studies in Economic Change on Merseyside
(Liverpool University Press, 1983).
Hardback. Very good in slightly sunned dustwrapper. xv + 268pp. Order No. NSBK-A9310
Keywords: 0853233748, economics, economy, Liverpool, Merseyside, North-West, commerce, industry, transport, Britain, British, England, English, history, shipping, trade, ports, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, century, 18th, 19th, 20th, financial services, employment, jobs, work
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Paperback. Fly leaf clipped, spine creased, minor pencil annotation, with newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C2122
Keywords: 0719044618, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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Zinn, Maxine Baca & Dill, Bonnie Thornton, eds.
Women of Color in U.S. Society:
(Temple UP, 1994).
Women In The Political Economy. Paperback. A little browning to covers, page edges lightly soiled, otherwise very good. xv + 339pp. Order No. NSBK-C15892
Keywords: 9781566391061, black women, America, American, USA, history, Women In The Political Economy, ethnicity
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Kirkup, Thomas.
A Primer of Socialism:
(Adam and Charles Black, 1908).
Hardback. A little fraying to spine and rubbing to edges, pages browned, otherwise good. 90pp. Order No. NSBK-A6953
Keywords: B000HC10GY, Thomas Kirkup, socialists, socialism, politics, twentieth century, 20th, Karl Marx, German Social Democracy, economics, economy, economic, socialist, Edwardian
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Robbins, Keith.
The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain, 1870-1975
(Longman, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 408pp. Order No. NSBK-A9399
Keywords: 0582489725, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth, twentieth, 19th, 20th, century, EEC, United Kingdom, Empire, imperialism, Commonwealth, democracy, economy, economics, European, Europe
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Isamah, Austin N.
Social Determinants of Labour Productivity in West Africa:
(Hans Zell, 1991).
Hardback. Boards a little sun-faded, otherwise very good. 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A7031
Keywords: 0905450485, labour, work, workers, economy, economics, West Africa, African, productivity, twentieth century, 20th, industrialisation, industrialization, industry
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Hutchinson, T. W.
Economics and Economic Policy in Britain, 1946-1966: Some Aspects of their Inter-relations
(George Allen and Unwin, 1968).
Hardback. Good in slightly browned, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A5959
Keywords: B000KYXBAW, economics, economic policy, economy, Britain, British, England, English, policy, policies, post-war, twentieth century
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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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Rothschild, Emma.
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
(Princeton UP, 2021).
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Hardback. Very good in slightly creased, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 448pp. Order No. NSBK-A15944
Keywords: 9780691200309, French, France, economy, families, family, economic, history, French Revolution, Angouleme, stored in hall
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