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Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
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 fet...more
Hardcover, 410 pages
Published
November 30th 2009
by Cambridge University Press
(first published 2009)
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Finally! I've been curious as to where theories of labor have located immaterial production for some time now and this book brings that out strongly. I truly enjoyed reading this book! It beautifully highlights how gender and labor often work together. It's an excellent book! It addresses an important void in labor history, explaining how domestic laborers (and todays service industry) fit into the working class.
Diana
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