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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"domestic servants"”.
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Domestic Servants on the New York and London Stages: 1880 - 1920 With an Emphasis on Costume
From 1880 to 1920, a social revolution took place in the United States and England, a revolution more costly in terms of human life and property than the French Revolution that preceded it a century earlier. Slow-moving, massive, and comprehensive, this social revolution had the same aim as its …
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Maids and mistresses in Recife (Brazil): An analysis of linkages between the formal and informal economy
In Brazil, domestic service absorbs a significant number of workers, mostly women. Not only do domestic servants represent a considerable contingent of the working women in Brazil, but they also make it easier for skilled females (their mistresses) to participate in the labor market, mostly in the …
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Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction
<p>In my dissertation, "Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle-Class in Modern Women's Fiction," I analyze the social anxieties surrounding domestic servants that permeated both popular and canonical archives in the United States during the early half of the twentieth century. I …
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Secret Servants: Household Domestics and Courtship in Eliza Haywood’s Fiction
… social class often rely on a different group: domestic servants. Sometimes acting as confidants and other times as active players in the scheming, these servants are privy to the inner secrets of the households in which they live. In Haywood's Love in Excess (1719), Lasselia (1723), Fantomina …
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'A Deadly Menace to All Young Womankind': Seduction and Protective Legislation in America, 1850-1923
… it was an actionable offense. Although female domestic servants have endured unwanted sexual attention for most of American history, the entry of women into wage labor in factories and offices during the late nineteenth century dramatically increased the number of girls and women that were …
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‘a Deadly Menace To All Young Womankind’: Seduction And Protective Legislation In America, 1850-1923
… it was an actionable offense. Although female domestic servants have endured unwanted sexual attention for most of American history, the entry of women into wage labor in factories and offices during the late nineteenth century dramatically increased the number of girls and women that were …
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Bourgeois Balkans: world-building in Belgrade and Sofia 1830-1912
… institutional control over sex workers, domestic servants, and other working women. Activists and state actors were likewise frustrated in their attempts to create productive urban subjects through scientific policing and prison labor. Ultimately, the application of bourgeois visions was …
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Gendered work: Women's paid labor in Barre, Vermont and Trinidad, Colorado, 1880--1918
… force. They worked as boardinghouse keepers, domestic servants, waitresses, laundresses, prostitutes, office workers, saleswomen, telephone operators, business owners, teachers, nurses, doctors, lawyers, artists, musicians, and midwives. By compiling and manuscript census records for 1880, …
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What! Is This the Kitchen?: Domestic Advice and the Market for a Model Kitchen, 1841-1959
… middle-class kitchen and its association with domestic advisors, advertisers, and magazine editors at three pivotal moments in its history from 1841-1959. Most importantly, the thesis analyzes how the user, whom these parties assumed was a white housewife with some access to domestic servants …
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MID-VICTORIAN PLYMOUTH: A SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY
… the towns attracted country girls to work as domestic servants and, also, many women were temporarily deserted as their husbands' occupations took them away from home. Principal component analyses show that, following a rapid phase of population growth i n the 1840s and 1850s, the combined …
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The Role of Law Enforcement in Combating Child Labour” a case study of Arusha City, Tanzania
… of informal employment. Majority employed as domestic servants, apprentice mechanics and car washers. The study revealed the main causes of child labour are parent separation, negligence of parents to take care their children, and Child orphan hood, outdated culture, poverty, cheap labour and …
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Diving: using fiction narrative and intermedial assemblage to understand family histories in colonial India between 1933-1947
… informed and inferred from scholarly research on domestic servants and other cultural sources, such as childhood colonial memoirs, films and literature. Some of these fictional characters, such as the colonists’ daughter, Wendy, are based on my own personal family archive. For other characters, …
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Family-functioning, sex-role ideology, psychological androgyny and self-actualisation in dual-career and traditional families
… explanations for this include their hiring of domestic servants, thus reducing the need for husbands to make adaptive role changes; and several indications that the wives continue to identify with the traditional female role. These features imply that these dual-career families are not fully …
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A social history of illegitimacy in Ireland from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
… illegitimacy behaviour of textile workers and domestic servants. The growth in illegitimacy during the decade may well be connected to problems in the linen industry locally and nationally. The life of the unmarried mother in the workhouse is explored by examining the privations she would …
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Livelihood and status struggles in the mission stations of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
This thesis is about the social, political, and economic interactions that took place in and around the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) in two very different regions: north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar. The mission was for much of the period a space in which people could – often …