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Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business principles applied to housework

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Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business principles applied to housework

C. Hélène Barker

57 pages~1 hr 8 min read32 chapters$4.99
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Run the household like a business, define the job, pay honest wages: C. Hélène Barker's 1915 proposal applies business principles to housework and diagnoses why capable women refuse domestic labor. A crisp, reforming little book decades ahead of the debates it predicts. The help-wanted ad, rewritten as economics.

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32 chapters

  1. 1WANTED
  2. 2A Young Woman to Do HOUSEWORK
  3. 3BUSINESS PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO HOUSEWORK
  4. 41915
  5. 5PREFACE
  6. 6CONTENTS
  7. 7PART I
  8. 8CAUSES OF THE PRESENT UNSATISFACTORY CONDITION OF DOMESTIC LABOR
  9. 9IGNORANCE AND INEFFICIENCY IN THE HOME
  10. 10DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING WOMEN TO DO HOUSEWORK
  11. 11THE DISADVANTAGES OF HOUSEWORK COMPARED WITH WORK IN FACTORIES, STORES, AND OFFICES
  12. 12PART II
  13. 13BUSINESS PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO HOUSEWORK
  14. 14LIVING OUTSIDE PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT
  15. 15HOUSEWORK LIMITED TO EIGHT HOURS A DAY
  16. 16HOUSEWORK LIMITED TO SIX DAYS A WEEK
  17. 17THE OBSERVANCE OF LEGAL HOLIDAYS IN THE HOME
  18. 18EXTRA PAY FOR OVERTIME

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