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Union Maids Not Wanted: Organizing Domestic Workers 1870-1940
Union Maids Not Wanted Organizing Domestic Workers 18701940 Author:Donna L. Van Raaphorst "Housework and domestic service have become popular topics within the scholarly community. . . Van Raaphorst . . . adds to this growing literature by illuminating the efforts to organize domestics in the years from the Civil War to WWII. The book does much more than this however. It surveys the period from early colonization to the 1930s and div... more »ides the history of domestic service into four distinct chronological eras. . . . The author examines the psychology of housework and assesses the occupation from the perspectives of the employer and employee. Finally, she sketches the seemingly innumerable but inevitably fleeting attempts to better the lot of the domestic either through organization or unionization." Choice« less