Feminism and the Servant Problem - Class and Domestic Labour in the Women''s Suffrage Movement

List of contents

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.

About the author

Laura Schwartz is Associate Professor of Modern British History at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on the history of British feminism, and is the author of A Serious Endeavour: Gender Education and Community at St Hugh's, 1886–2011 (2011) and Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women's Emancipation, England 1830–1914 (2013).

Summary

With this first history of suffrage to look at contributions by domestic servants, Laura Schwartz brings a feminist perspective to labour history. Feminism and the Servant Problem offers a new understanding of the class politics of the suffrage movement, and challenges traditional notions of who made up the British working class.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Schwartz, Laura (University of Warwick) Schwartz, Schwartz Laura
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108457743
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45774-3
• No. of pages: 245
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Feminism and feminist theory, Pressure groups & lobbying