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
Price £7.50.
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Hudson, Pat.
The Industrial Revolution:
(Edward Arnold, 1992).
Paperback. Good. xi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C8170
Keywords: 9780713165319, industry, industrial, industrial revolution, social history, economy, economic, labour, labor, Pat Hudson, technology, demography, commerce, consumption, class, work
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Shaxby, W. J.
The Case Against Picketing:
(Liberty Review Publishing, 2nd edition, 1897).
Hardback. Covers soiled with some light wear to edges. Ex library with minimal library markings, otherwise a good copy. viii + 86pp. Order No. NSBK-A14225
Keywords: B0017XSNH6, trade unions, trade unionism, picketing, strikes, pickets, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, riots, Free Labour Protection Association, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, strike, industrial disputes
Price £38.00.
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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
Price £3.00.
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Mayhew, Henry.
Mayhew's Characters:
(Spring Books, 1967).
Edited with a note on the English character by Peter Quennell. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper which is rather torn and tatty at edges. xix + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A5010
Keywords: B0000CNF5P, Henry Mayhew, nineteenth century, Victorian, povery, poor, London, oral history, Britain, British, England, english, interviews, people, popular, working-class, working class, work, labor, labour, mayhew's characters, mayhew's, mayhew, characters
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Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
Price £16.95.
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Huggett, Frank E.
The Coal Miner:
(The Educational Supply Association, 1955).
People's Jobs. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine worn, ink stain to one page, a working copy. 89pp. Order No. NSBK-J11333
Keywords: B0000CJ5H8, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, labour, labor, work, miners, pitmen, coal, mines, pits, collieries, colliery, jobs, employment, twentieth century, 20th, mining
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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
Price £45.00.
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Allen, G.C.
The Structure of Industry in Britain: A Study in Economic Change
(Longman, 3rd edit., 1972).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, otherwise good. viii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A10075
Keywords: industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Britain, British, history, England, English, labour, labor, labour organisation, economics, economic, twentieth century, twentieth, Allen
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Flanders, Allan.
Trade Unions:
(Hutchinson, rpt, 1967).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A3775
Keywords: 0090455614, trade unionism, trade unions, labour, industry, England, English, Britain, British, Trade Union Congress, collective bargaining, wages, employment, working conditions, class
Price £2.99.
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