Myrdal, Gunnar.
The Cost of Living in Sweden, 1830 - 1930:
(P. S. King, 1933).
Assisted by Sven Bouvin. Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stockholm. Hardback. Page edges foxed. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Some scuffing to cloth, and a little splitting externally to spine. Otherwise a good, solid, firm copy. x + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A13356
Keywords: B000H47BVU, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish, economy, economic, cost of living, 19th century, twentieth century, prices, wages, budgets, clothing, housing, history
Price £22.00.
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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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Pearson, R.A.
The Guardian Book of the Welfare State:
(Wildwood House, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A7656
Keywords: 0704530848, 20th, twentieth century, welfare state, social history, social welfare, poor, poverty, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, debates, housing, education, health, social security, health, post-war, post war
Price £4.00.
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Kaye, Michael.
Child Welfare Outside the School:
(Oliver and Boyd, 1937).
Hardback. Some brown soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise good. viii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-A13584
Keywords: B00112B870, inter-war, inter war, child welfare, social welfare, home, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, family, poverty, social history, health, employment, unemployment, leisure, delinquency, slums, slum, fitness, children
Price £11.99.
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Hill, Octavia.
Homes of the London Poor:
(Macmillan, first edition, 1875).
Rare first edition copy. Hardback. Leather spine worn / scuffed. Cloth, which is a little patchy with sun-fading, has light marking, spotting. Fly leaf split at spine and last page loose, else a good solid copy. pp. Order No. NSBK-C16068
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society, London, women
Price £135.00.
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Aronson, Hugh.
Our Village Homes: Present Conditions and Suggested Remedies
(Thomas Murby, 1913).
With a preface by Lord Henry Bentinck. Hardback. Cloth rather soiled, some rubbing / fraying to extremities, otherwise a good solid copy. x + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13844
Keywords: B001IVIPUM, villages, village, history, town planning, housing, houses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing schemes, social history, housing conditions, homes, rural areas, countryside, health, rural depopulation, agriculture, labourers' cottages, cottage, Hugh Aronson, social conditions, architecture, house building
Price £70.00.
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Lyster, Robert A.
A First Course in Hygiene:
(University Tutorial Press, rpt, 1946).
Hardback. Blue cloth darkened and marked in places, corners worn, otherwise good. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A6371
Keywords: health, hygiene, social welfare, social hygiene, history, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, Robert A. Lyster, body, ventilation, text books, foods, digestion, cooking, nervous system, dwellings, housing, heating, water supply, diseases, infection, houses, diets
Price £5.00.
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Rubinstein, David.
Victorian Homes:
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Boards lightly soiled, otherwise very good. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A8040
Keywords: 071536765X, Victorian, homes, houses, nineteenth, 19th, century, residences, residential, class, architecture, architectural, classes, slums, housing, terraces, planning, sanitation, hot water, heating, lighting, flats, tenements, society
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Corfe, Tom, ed.
The Buildings of Sunderland, 1814 - 1914:
(Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1983).
Booklet. Very good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A16100
Keywords: 9780905974132, stored with booklets, architecture, buildings, booklets, architectural, history, North East, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland, Newcastle, housing, towns, urban, urbanisation, Victorian, nineteenth century
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 3
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine lightly browned, otherwise very good. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13116
Keywords: 0904573222, Victorian, 1850, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, work, thieves, theft, robbery, London, tramps, vagrancy, lodging houses, housing, food, earnings, child labour, boot and shoe trade, beggars, asylums, clothes, boot and shoe makers
Price £19.95.
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