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Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
Labours Lost Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
Author: Carolyn Steedman
This is a unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England and of how servants thought about and articulated their resentments. It is a book which encompasses state formation and the maidservant pounding away at dirty nappies in the back kitchen; taxes on the servant's labour and the knives ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521516372
ISBN-10: 0521516374
Publication Date: 12/14/2009
Pages: 426
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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