Carolyn Steedman

Labours Lost

Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

A unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780521516372
• ISBN-10: 0521516374
• Artikelnr.: 26203843

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Her previous publications include Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (2007) and Dust (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: the servant's dream
1. Introduction: a new view of society
2. Servants numberless: theories of labour and property
3. Frances Hamilton's labour
Necessity: 4. Lord Mansfield's women
5. In a free state
Horses: 6. The law of everyday life
7. Policing society
servant-stories: 8. Servants and childcare: Ann Mead's murder
9. Food for thought
10. An ode on a dishclout
11. A servant's wages
Stays: 12. Conclusion: the needs of things.