Knowing their place : domestic service in twentieth-century Britain /
"Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the 20th century. 'Knowing Their Place' challenges this by linking the early 20th century employment of maids and cooks to later practices of employing au pairs, mothers' he...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Twentieth-century servants
- Servant-keepers and the management of servants
- "Doing for oneself" : the servantless home
- Kitchen-sink laughter : domestic service humour
- "The good, the bad, and the spicy" : servants in pornography and erotica
- Heritage nostalgia : domestic service remembered and performed.
