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Domestic service

Lucy Maynard Salmon

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A history professor sent questionnaires into American kitchens and made a science of the servant problem. Lucy Maynard Salmon traces domestic service from colonial days forward, analyzes its economics, and proposes remedies both employer and employee could live with. The first serious academic study of housework as labor. Still cited wherever anyone takes the household seriously.

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52 chapters

  1. 1DOMESTIC SERVICE
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5DOMESTIC SERVICE
  6. 6CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
  7. 7CHAPTER II HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF DOMESTIC EMPLOYMENTS
  8. 8CHAPTER III DOMESTIC SERVICE DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD
  9. 9CHAPTER IV DOMESTIC SERVICE SINCE THE COLONIAL PERIOD
  10. 10CHAPTER V ECONOMIC PHASES OF DOMESTIC SERVICE[185]
  11. 11TABLE I Place of Birth of Employees
  12. 12TABLE II Domestic Employees in the United States, 1890
  13. 13TABLE III Proportion of Persons of Foreign Birth in the United States
  14. 14TABLE IV Place of Birth of Domestic Employees
  15. 15TABLE V Number of Foreign Born in Domestic Service
  16. 16TABLE VI Domestic Servants and Women compared with those in Gainful Occupations
  17. 17TABLE VII Average Weekly Wages by Geographical Section
  18. 18TABLE VIII Average Weekly and Daily Wages by Occupations

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