Gender, race, and the status of household labour in Lucy Maynard Salmon's Domestic Service (1897).
Lucy Maynard Salmon's book, Domestic Service, aimed to change the terms of the 'servant question' at the end of the nineteenth century by treating it as a serious economic and labour issue, worthy of scientific investigation. This article explores three key analytical contributions Salmon made to an...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 31; no. 7; pp. 1127 - 1149 |
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