Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750
Series: Women and Men in History Series
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780582312081
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; General; England; History - General History; Textbooks; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History: World; London, Greater London; History; Europe - Great Britain - General; Gender Studies; Domestics; Working class; 17th century; 18th century; London
Description: "This book presents the lives of women and men who lived and worked as domestic servants in London between 1660 and 1750. Using the testimony of 1,500 individual servants alive in a distinct phase of English history, the book brings to life: household relations; sex and slander; life cycle; working conditions; and wages, perks and tips for diverse servants. It addresses the controversies over the early modern family and the myth of separate spheres. Its broad scope encompasses histories of privacy, desire and social relations, of cultures of work, and of moral economics of service." "Integrating the latest social and cultural histories. this books shows how thousands of men and women got their living within the households of the sometimes turbulent, always vibrant world of England's capital city."--BOOK JACKET.