Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England

by Carolyn Steedman

Book Overview

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 fetched, and the privy he shovelled out. Carolyn Steedman shows how deeply entwined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521736234
• ISBN13: 9780521736237
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"