Feminism and the servant problem : class and domestic labour in the women's suffrage movement /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwartz, Laura (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:No linguistic content
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Whose Problem Was the 'Servant Problem'?; Servants and the 'Servant Problem'; The 'Servant Problem' as a Feminist Problem; Servants and the Working Class; Sources; 1 The 'Servant Problem' and the Suffrage Home; The Servant's View of the 'Servant Problem'; The Blathwayts and Their Servants; The Clark Family Servants; Louise Jermy and Mary Muirhead; 2 Servants in the Suffrage Movement; Class and the Suffrage Movement; Servants in the Suffrage Movement
  • Representations of Domestic Servants in Pageantry and Propaganda3 The Housework Problem; Suffrage and Housework; Women's Common Burden of Housework; Housework and the Politicisation of Everyday Life; Housework and the Feminist Woman; 4 Domestic Labour and the Feminist Work Ethic; The Feminist Work Ethic; The Value of Housework and the Endowment of Motherhood; A Degree for Housewives?; Domestic Servants and the Feminist Woman; 5 The Domestic Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland; The Formation of the Domestic Workers' Union; A Union Such as the Miners Have
  • The Domestic Workers' Union and the Suffrage MovementA Job like Any Other?; 6 Servants and Co-operative Housekeeping; Co-operative Housekeeping Schemes, 1880-1918; Domestic Workers' Experiences of Co-operative Housekeeping; Working-Class Women's Organisations and Co-operative Housekeeping; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Primary Sources; Archives; Newspapers; Published Sources; Secondary Sources; Unpublished; Published; Index