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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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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Mathias, Peter and Davis, John A. eds.
The First Industrial Revolutions:
(Basil Blackwell, rpt., 1990).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. viii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A8848
Keywords: 0631160396, industrial, Industrial Revolutions, technology, labour, labor, enterprise, agriculture, transport, agriculture, population
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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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Morton, A.L. and Tate, George.
The British Labour Movement, 1770-1920: A History
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1956).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A12133
Keywords: B0000CJH9N, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, Labour, Labour Party, Labor, left, left wing, Labour Movement, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth century, 18th, 19th, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Clark, Anna.
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
(Rivers Oram, 1995).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xv + 416pp. Order No. NSBK-C2179
Keywords: 9781854890757, gender, British, Britain, class, working class, marriage, courtship, Glasgow, Lancashire, London, factories, textiles, artisans, labour, labor, factory, social history
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Brown, Phillip and Scase, Richard, eds.
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour
(Open UP, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A14097
Keywords: 0335099408, labour, labor, division of labour, working classes, low-paid jobs, unskilled labour, low pay, working conditions, temporary work, part-time work, labour market, economy, employment
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Thornton, William T.
Over-Population and its Remedy: an Inquiry into the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British Islands and into the Means of Remedying It
(Irish University Press, 1971 rpt of 1846 edition).
Hardback. Very good. xi + 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A5918
Keywords: 9780716517511, over-population, population, demography, demographic, labour, labor, laboring classes, labouring classes, laborers, labourers, Britain, British, England, English, history, poor, pauperism, poor laws, Malthus, Malthusian, Victorian, nineteenth century, economic, economic, resources, working classes
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Jones, Stephen G.
The British Labour Movement and Film, 1918-1939:
(RKP, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. vii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A6111
Keywords: 0710209738, Britain, British, Labour, Labor, Film, films, cinemas, media, photography, photographs, cinematic, pictures, work, working class, twentieth century, interwar, Britain, British, England, English, inter war, interwar, inter-war
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
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