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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Banks, J. A.
Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families
(Gregg Revivals, rpt., 1994).
Hardback. Near fine. 203pp. Order No. NSBK-C7998
Keywords: 075120269X, contraception, family planning, children, Victorian, secularism, middle class, sexual habits, motherhood, fatherhood, health, nineteenth century, families, family, family size, birth control, history, middle classes, Britain, British, England, English, sexuality, birth rate, sexual morality, standard of living, social conditions, fertility, morals, moral code
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Goodman, Joyce and Martin, Jane, eds.
Gender, Colonialism and Education: the Politics of Experience
(Woburn Press, 2002).
A series of essays. Hardback. Very good in soiled dustwrapper. xv + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C7393
Keywords: 0713002263, gender, colonialism, Joyce Goodman, Jane Martin, education, Empire, history, imperialism, colonies, feminism, educational, politics, colonial, Orientalism, Europe, Euro-imperialism, Europeans, teachers, teaching, post-colonial, feminist, theory, theories, class, self, nation, nations, nationhood, essays
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Gordon, Linda, ed.
Women, the State and Welfare:
(Wisconsin UP, 1992).
Paperback. Light creasing to spine and rubbing to edges, otherwise very good. 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C5459
Keywords: 9780299126643, welfare, social welfare, race, class, America, American, United States of America, USA, women's, women, woman, social security, twentieth century, state, state welfare, state support, unemployment, welfare programmes, public welfare, poor women, poverty, social policy, Linda Gordon
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Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
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Walton, John K. and Walvin, James.
Leisure in Britain, 1780 - 1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library, spine creased, usual library markings, otherwise good. vi + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A13843
Keywords: 071901946X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Glass, David, ed.
Social Mobility in Britain:
(RKP, 1954).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Cloth worn espec at edges, otherwise a good working copy. viii + 412pp. Order No. NSBK-A527
Keywords: B0010XSGM0, class, classes, class structure, social mobility, status, occupations, sociology
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Birch, Lionel, ed.
The History of the T.U.C., 1868-1968: a Pictorial Survey of a Social Revolution
(General Council TUC, 1968).
Paperback. Large format. Spine creased & covers slightly yellowed, overall very good. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-A2482
Keywords: B0000CO80S, trade union, labour history, class, revolution, British history, class, work, TUC,Britain, British, England, English, history
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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