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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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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Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, ed.
Woman's Mission: a Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women by Eminent Writers
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile of 1893 ed).
For the Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893. Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, spine slightly creased, otherwise very good. viii + 485pp. Order No. NSBK-C4894
Keywords: 9781378684542, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropy, philanthropic, women, woman, women's history, woman's, woman's mission, women and work, Britain, British, England, English, poor, poverty, Victorian, nineteenth century, societies, temperance, organisations, friendly societies, friendly society, Florence Nightingale, sisterhood, charity, charities, Sarah Ponsonby, working class, working classes, needlework, poor laws, ragged schools, education, welfare, social welfare, social history, women's work, missions, women workers, rescue work, Portrayers, Portrayer Publishers, philanthropic institutions, Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893, victoriana, Portrayer's, women's work, woman worker, woman workers
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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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Stevenson, John and Cook, Chris.
The Slump: Society and Politics During the Depression
(Quartet Books, 1979).
Paperback. Spine creased and covers yellowed, very minimal pencil annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. x + 348pp. Order No. NSBK-A10470
Keywords: 0704332809, slump, Depression, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, 1930s, thirties, unemployment, working class, working-class, classes, enemployed, Communism, Communists, The National Unemployed Workers' Movement, Hunger marches, Fascists, government, polls, general elections
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England, Joe, editor.
Changing Lives: Workers' Education in Wales, 1907 - 2007
(Welsh People's History Society, 2007).
Paperback. Very good+. vi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A14197
Keywords: B001SGXJE4, Wales, Welsh, history, education, twentieth century, schools, WEA, working classes, adult education, workers, Workers' Educational Association
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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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Read, Donald and Glasgow, Eric.
Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist
(Edward Arnold, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, light sellotape marks to cloth, otherwise good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A10350
Keywords: B0000CKYZG, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation, working-class, classes, radicals, Irish, Irishman, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, lives, eighteenth century, 18th
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Bamford, Samuel.
Passages in the Life of a Radical:
(OUP, 1984 rpt of 1884 text).
Preface by Tim Hilton. Paperback. Back cover slightly soiled, otherwise good. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-A814
Keywords: 0192814133, radical, Britain, British, England, English, history, radicals, radicalism, samule banford, autobiography, autobiographies, working class, working classes, hampden clubs, peterloo massacre, manchester, weavers, nineteenth century, 19th century
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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