Labours Lost - Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England. Zusammenfassung Restoring servants' lost labours to their rightful place! Carolyn Steedman's unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England provides a profound re-reading of this formative period in English social history! examining how servants thought about and articulated their resentments. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Steedman, Carolyn (University of Warwick) Steedman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521736237
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73623-7
• No. of pages: 426
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories