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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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
(Macgibbon and Kee, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxxvi + 431pp. Order No. NSBK-A14555
Keywords: 0901740888, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, trade unionism, industrial democracy, industrialisation, working classes, trade disputes, wages, pay, Labour Party, shop stewards
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Pinchbeck, Ivy.
Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750 - 1850:
(George Routledge, 1930).
Hardback. A little splitting / weakening internally at spine, edges slightly worn and cloth a little rubbed - otherwise a good copy. x + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-C9033
Keywords: B001P165SY, women workers, women and work, industry, industrialisation, Industrial Revolution, labour, working class, occupations, factories, mines, Ivy Pinchbeck, history, 18th century, eighteenth century, 19th century, nineteenth century, mining, hand loom weavers, domestic industries, trade, labor, labourers, textiles, women's history, factory, factories, economy, economic
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Langan, Mary and Schwarz, Bill, eds.
Crises in the British State, 1880-1930:
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Paperback. Coverschipped and slightly dented, otherwise good+. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-A8083
Keywords: 0091546818, state, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, society, suffrage, feminism, child welfare, class, schooling, education, economy, imperialism, unemployment, labour, labor
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Allen, Sheila and Wolkowitz, Carol.
Homeworking: Myths and Realities
(Macmillan, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. x + 225pp. Order No. NSBK-A8666
Keywords: 033342364X, homeworking, women workers, domestic economy, hidden workforce, gender, casual labour, labor, twentieth century, women and work, sociology
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Flinn, M. W and Smout, T. C. eds.
Essays in Social History:
(Clarendon Press, 1974).
Edited for the Economic History Society. Paperback. Minor annotation, slightly shaky with tatty covers, a good working copy. xi + 289pp. Order No. NSBK-A5657
Keywords: 0198770170, social history, economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, labour, labor, Industrial Revolution, industry, Sunday Schools, Manchester, Poor Laws, class, classes, towns, urban history, social reform, mortality, trade unions, women's history, trade unionism
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Eales, Jacqueline.
Women in Early Modern England, 1500-1700:
(UCL Press, 1998).
Paperback. Card covers slightly faded / creased, otherwise very good. viii + 133pp. Order No. NSBK-C3928
Keywords: 9781857282689, women, history, early modern, England, Britain, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, gender, British, English, family, work, working, labour, labor
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Parr, Joy.
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Scarce. Hardback. Good condition, in faded and lightly soiled dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A3988
Keywords: 0773505172, immigrants, apprentices, apprenticeship, Canada, Canadian history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, emigrants, emigration, child, children, childhood, labor, labour, adoption, philanthropy, philanthropic, agricultural, domestic service, domestic servants, Evangelicals, migration
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Herman, G. Ernest.
Difficult Labour: A Guide to its Management for Students and Practitioners
(Cassell, new and enlarged edition, 1910).
New and Enlarged Edition, With Added Chapters on Retroversion of the Gravid Uterus and Puerperal Eclampsia. With 180 illustrations. Paperback. A rather shakey ex-library copy. Binding loose (needs rebinding), lacks original cover, (has library jacket). A working copy only. 547pp. Order No. NSBK-C13896
Keywords: B00087WBKW, labour, history of childbirth, having a baby, Edwardian, women's history, maternity, motherhood, medical, medicine, labor, uterus, uterine, gynaecology, obstetrics, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Herzog, Marianne.
From Hand to Mouth: Women and Piecework
(Penguin, rpt., 1980).
Paperback. Good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-C4791
Keywords: 0140220895, women, women and work, history, women's history, German, Germany, Europe, European, West Germany, Philips, Siemens, piecework, wages, unemployment, employment, jobs, factory work, industry, industries, industrial, labor, labour, labor market, labour market. twentieth century
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