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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"domestic service"”.
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Children in domestic service c.1760-1830
Domestic service was a major source of employment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but has only in recent years been the subject of serious historical research. Child servants represented a rather small cohort of this sector but formed a significant section of the total child labour …
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User Perceptions of Privacy and Comfort in Domestic Service Robots
… levels, when interacting with camera-equipped domestic robots. We utilize a privacy-enhancing feature: a translucent camera cover that blurs the robot’s vision while preserving a limited degree of functionality for computer vision algorithms. Our findings indicate that participants perceived …
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Domestic service : changing relations of class domination 1841-1948 : a focus on Cape Town
… the historical and sociological significance of domestic service in Cape and Cape Town class relations. The forces which led to the present class structure with its particular colour and sexual division of labour, where the majority of domestic workers were and are Black women were examined. It …
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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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The central committee on women's training and employment : tackling the servant problem, 1914 - 1945
Domestic service dominated women's lives in the first half of the twentieth century. The largest sector of female employment, paradoxically there was a perceived servant problem. Defined as a shortage of female applicants, it generated much debate both within and outside Parliament. One potential …
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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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Subjectivity in the 'maid'/'madam' relationship and its effects on the occupational child care-giving functions of the domestic worker
… practises in the social relations within domestic service position, the domestic worker, and the work she does, as of low status and impinges on the child caregiving functions of the domestic worker. The extent to which racial factors are operant was assessed. Accounts were obtained from …
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The Plight of Kenyan Domestic Workers in Gulf Countries
… gap, Kenyan women are seeking employment in the domestic service sector in the Gulf Countries, with Saudi Arabia being the most popular destination. At their destination countries, some domestic workers are subjected to various forms of abuse by their employers, leaving the worker without …
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"Seeking and saving": the reform of prostitutes and the prevention of prostitution in Birmingham, 1860-1914
… all attempted to train working class women for domestic service. Preventive work was also developed by Nonconformist women and men to augment the reform institutions. In establishing different organisations to provide a moral safety net for young women, they believed that their organisations …
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In the Name of the Home: Women, Domestic Science, and American Higher Education, 1865--1930
"This dissertation examines the development of domestic science as an academic field for American women at the turn of the century. In this period, domestic science transcended the private sphere and emerged as an ideology of political and public domesticity in response to the anxieties engendered …
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The evolution of U.S. commercial domestic aircraft operations from 1991 to 2010
… is to explore the evolution of U.S. commercial domestic aircraft operations from 1991 to 2010 and describe the implications for future U.S. commercial domestic fleets. Using data collected from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, we analyze 110 different aircraft types from 145 …
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Jewish Women Reformers and Jewish Immigrant Women: The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh, 1893-1920
… the category of unskilled general labor and domestic service. These workers sought economic betterment; expanding American business and industry offered them opportunities, and until the 1890's, encouraged immigration to fill the many jobs available. Immigrants tended to settle in cities, …
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VAT on imported services: Implications for the collective investment scheme industry in the absence of place of supply rules in South Africa
… where the fees charged, in respect of services rendered to manage these funds, are consumed. This is accomplished by analysing the South African VAT legislation in order to determine whether it succeeds in providing certainty regarding the place of supply of offshore investments, and …
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Sérhannað húsnæði aldraðra. Stefnumótun og löggjöf á Íslandi 1983-2008
… was sent to the directors of social services in all municipalities followed by telephone calls to collect further data on age-specific housing. The principles underlying policy were explored, as were responsibilities for decision making and implementation and whether legislation and …
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Working on-demand in the domestic sector: A case study on the experiences of platform domestic work in Cape Town
… of the gig economy that are providing platform domestic work in South Africa, more specifically cleaning services. In the platform domestic work model, the provision of domestic service is now undertaken on an on-demand basis and is organized and structured virtually though an online platform or …
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Class and Gender in the Phillippines: Ethnographic Interviews with Female Employer-Female Domestic Dyads
… relationship between female employers and female domestics in the Philippines focusing on how it maintains and reproduces the intersecting class and gender relations of power that brought the two women together. It also explores relationality - how the privileging of one group of women is related …
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Figuring Women's Work: The Cultural Production of Care and Labor in the Industrial U.S.
… of work performed in the “private sphere”: domestic, service, and care labor. But by presuming that these forms of “women’s work” were outside the market and the interests of labor, scholars obscure a vast array of historical possibilities that precede our present economic and social order. …
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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 …