num_pages: 338
description: Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new `servant' class.Examining the position of nannies and cleaners, the authors explore the national socio-economic trends which have led to this new phenomenon and the profound changes this reflects in our concepts of motherhood and class and gender relations.
language: English
title: Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain
titlecomplete: Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain (Routledge International Studies of Women and Place)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Routledge