Feminism and the servant problem : class and domestic labour in the women's suffrage movement / Laura Schwartz.

"In the early twentieth century, women fought for the right to professional employment and political influence outside the home. Yet if liberation from household 'drudgery' meant employing another woman to do it, where did this leave domestic servants? Both inspired and frustrated by the growing fem...

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Main Author: Schwartz, Laura (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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Physical Description:ix, 235 pages ; 24 cm
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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Whose Problem was the 'Servant Problem'?; 1. The 'Servant Problem' and the Suffrage Home; 2. Servants in the Suffrage Movement; 3. The Housework Problem; 4. Domestic Labour and the Feminist Work Ethic; 5. The Domestic Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland; 6. Servants and Co-operative Housekeeping; Conclusion; Index. 
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