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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Kramer, Ann.
Land Girls and their Impact:
(Remember When, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2008).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xxiii + 183pp. Order No. NSBK-C14607
Keywords: 1844680290, Ann Kramer, land girls, landgirls, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Second World War, World War II, Two, women and work, working women, Lady Gertrude Denman, Women's Timber Corps, WVS, Women's Voluntary Service, employment, jobs, pay, oral history, courting, courtship, Women's Land Army, Women's Forestry Corps, women's history
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Frolich, Paul.
Rosa Luxemburg:
(Pluto, 2nd impression, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xx + 329pp. Order No. NSBK-A14589
Keywords: 0902818198, Rosa Luxemburg, women, working classes, working class movement, biography, biographies, communism, communist, Communist Party, Germany, German, socialism, socialist, socialists, Social Democratic Party
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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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Sokoloff, Bertha.
Edith and Stepney: 60 Years of Education, Politics and Social Change - Life of Edith Ramsay, 1920 - 79
(Stepney Books, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A15979
Keywords: 9780950524160, social history, Stepney, East End, London, working class women, education, Edith Ramsay
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Walker, Stephen and Barton, Len, eds.
Gender, Class & Education:
(Falmer Press, 1983).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, covers a little browned and spine faded, otherwise good+. xi + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-A14107
Keywords: 0905273419, gender, education, class, gender identity, teaching, social policy, schools, schooling, social classes, women's education, working classes, middle classes
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Butler, Josephine E.
Truth Before Everything:
(Dyer Brothers, first edition, 1897).
For the collector. Pamphlet. Light foxing to paper covers, minor biro date written on top corner front cover, otherwise very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-C15465
Keywords: B0187JJR04, pamphlet, pamphlets, Josephine E. Butler, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Truth Before Everything, booklet
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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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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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Hewitt, Patricia.
About Time: Revolution in Work and Family Life
(IPPR, Rivers Oram, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 183pp. Order No. NSBK-A14945
Keywords: 1854890409, Patricia Hewitt, work, family life, life cycle, families, employment, working women, flexible working hours
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