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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Hodson, Patricia M., ed.
The Manchester Ship Canal: a Guide to Historical Sources
(Lancashire Bibliography, 1985).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good. xi + 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A5212
Keywords: 0902217143, Manchester, regional studies, Manchester Ship Canal, North West, industrial, industry, social history, canals, navigation, man-made waterways, navvies, ports, port of Manchester, Ellesmere Port, trade, commerce, commercial, transport, Lancashire, Britain, British, England, English, sources, documents, bibliography, research, bibliographies
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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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Greenall, R.L.
The Making of Victorian Salford:
(Carnegie Publishing, 2000).
Paperback. Edges soiled, otherwise good+. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A4545
Keywords: 1859360777, Salford, Manchester, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, history, social history, urban, industry, industrial, cotton, textiles, mills, factories, factory system, textile, towns, urbanisation
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Macdougall, Ian, ed.
Labour in Scotland: A Pictorial History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
(Mainstream Publishing, 1985).
Beautifully illustrated in colour and black and white. Paperback. Very good+. 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A12466
Keywords: 0906391652, eighteenth, 18th, Scotland, Scottish, Scots, labour, labor, work, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, employees, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work
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Bradley, Harriet.
Men's Work: Women's Work:
(Polity Press, 1989).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, light staining to page edges, otherwise good +. vii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C9413
Keywords: 0745601626, women, work, women's work, women and work, men's work, industry, sexual division of labour, labour, labor, gender, inequality, equality, agriculture, nursing, shopwork, hosiery, job segregation, Industrial Revolution, nineteenth century, twentieth century, eighteenth cnetury
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Warren, Kenneth.
The British Iron and Steel Sheet Industry Since 1840:
(G. Bell, 1970).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A9881
Keywords: 0713515481, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, history, iron, steel, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, twentieth, 20th
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Holbrook-Jones, Mike.
Supremacy and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement
(Heinemann Educational, 1982).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8640
Keywords: 0435824171, class, classes, class structure, heirarchy, social, society, working-class, working-class, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, jobs, labour, labor, miners, coal, spinners, engineers, men, man, Maxist, Marxism, industrial revolution, labour history, labor history, Britain, British, England, English, history, sociology, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists
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Supple, Barry E., ed.
The Experience of Economic Growth: Case Studies in Economic History
(Random House, 1963).
A Random House Book. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good in torn dustwrapper. x + 458pp. Order No. NSBK-A13141
Keywords: 0198203578, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Bieler, Andreas.
The Struggle for a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Critical Labour Movement Studies. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A14634
Keywords: 9780719072529, Critical Labour Movement Studies, Europe, European, trade unions, trade unionism, history, EMU, global restructuring, labour, Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, industrial relations
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