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Servicing the Middle Classes - Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain (Paperback, New)
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Servicing the Middle Classes - Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain (Paperback, New)
Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
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Domestic service is being reinstated by the middle classes. Demand
for domestic labour has increased in Britain in recent years. For
some, hiring domestic help is nothing new, but for the majority of
British households, it is beyond the range of immediate experience.
This text sets out to investigate the resurgence of demand for
waged domestic labour in Britain during the 1980s and early 1990s,
and the consequent growth of a new "servant" class. Examining the
conditions and trends which have conjoined to produce and reproduce
this labour force, the book cites two particular case studies. It
explores the day-to-day practices, composition, geography of
demand, and social relations of the two major forms of waged
domestic labour in contemporary Britain - nannies and cleaners. The
work concludes by considering the effects of the ideologies of
motherhood, false kinship relations and caring, on the ways in
which paid domestic workers are employed. It also examines the
broader theoretical implications of the study for debates on class
and gender and its implications for feminist politics.
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