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Labours Lost - Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England (Hardcover)
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Labours Lost - Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England (Hardcover)
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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 he cleaned, the water he fetched, and the
privy he shovelled out. Carolyn Steedman shows how deeply entwined
all of these entities, objects and people were in the imagination
of those doing the shovelling and pounding and in the political
philosophies that attempted to make sense of it all. Rather than
fitting domestic service into conventional narratives of industrial
revolution' or the making of the English working class' she offers
instead a profound re-reading of this formative period in English
social history which restores the servants' lost labours to their
rightful place.
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