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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Hartford, William F.
Where is Our Responsibility?: Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960
(Massachusetts Press, 1996).
Hardback. Very good+. x + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A12362
Keywords: 1558490221, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, New England, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, , Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, textiles, factories, factory, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, work
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Supple, Barry, ed.
Essays in British Business History:
(Clarendon, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, a little discolouration to covers, otherwise a good copy. viii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A5554
Keywords: 019877088X, business, business history, Britain, British, England, English, businesses, economy, economic, entrepreneurs, Barry Supple, manufacturing, industry, industrial, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, industries, technology
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Upham, Martin.
Tempered - Not Quenched: The History of the ISTC, 1951-1997
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 295pp. Order No. NSBK-A11375
Keywords: 085315855X, ISTC, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, work, twentieth century, 20th
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Smith, Keith.
The British Economic Crisis: its Past and Future
(Penguin, rpt with revisions, 1989).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, covers soiled, lacks fly leaf, a good working copy. 265pp. Order No. NSBK-A7883
Keywords: 0140228136, economics, economy, British, Britain, English, England, history, crisis, monetarism, Keynesianism, industrial recovery, boom, markets
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Johnston, R. J and Doornkamp, J. C., eds.
The Changing Geography of The United Kingdom:
(Methuen, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, page edges soiled and covers creased, otherwise good. xviii + 430pp. Order No. NSBK-A8567
Keywords: 0416748104, geography, geographical, United Kingdom, agriculural, agriculture, water, transport, land, energy, industrial, manufacturing, service industries, cities, city, rural, pollution
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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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Mortimer, James E and Ellis, Valerie A.
A Professional Union: The Evolution of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants
(George Allen and Unwin, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. ix + 450pp. Order No. NSBK-A8500
Keywords: 0043310761, professionals, civil servants, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, Britain, British, England, English, history, class, Institution of Professional Civil Servants, white collar, IPCS, TUC, militants, pay, industrial relations, civil service, politics, sociology, twentieth century, 20th
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Gash, Norman.
Aristocracy and People: Britain, 1815 - 1865
(Arnold, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good+. 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A7498
Keywords: 0713161604, Norman Gash, aristocracy, class, classes, nineteeth century, text books, Victorian, 19th century, history, politics, social change, industry, industrial, constitution, government, Britain, British, England, English
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Trinder, Barrie.
The Darbys of Coalbrookdale:
(Phillimore, revised reprint, corrected, 1981).
Paperback. Very good. 79pp. Order No. NSBK-A8361
Keywords: 0850333059, Darbys, Coalbrookdale, industry, industrial, history, economy, economic, Shropshire, Darby family, iron, iron industry, iron works, Industrial Revolution
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