The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London
The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics' court depositions offer qualitative evidence that female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis. Exposed here are the contractual underpinnings of domestic service for women; the mobility that domestic servants enjoyed; and the concern that this mobility generated in the authorities. Paid domestic work has traditionally been regarded by historians simply as a pre-marital phase of women's lives. In fact, the depositions in this volume show that…
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- ISBN: 978-1-351-88999-5
- EAN: 9781351889995
- Produktnummer: 24386497
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'261 KB
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Paula Humfrey teaches history in the online programs of Eastern Oregon University, USA, and Laurentian University, Canada.
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