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Domestic service

Chapter 1: DOMESTIC SERVICE
By Lucy Maynard Salmon
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A systematic study of household employment based on questionnaires from employers and employees, presenting statistical tables and summaries of wages, tenure, hours, and working conditions. It examines geographic and demographic patterns and institutional supports such as exchanges and training in household skills. Employer and employee viewpoints are compared to reveal sources of dissatisfaction and turnover. The author evaluates pay relative to other occupations, surveys European practices, and offers practical recommendations and social reforms aimed at improving the organization, training, and standing of domestic labor.

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Title: Domestic service

Author: Lucy Maynard Salmon

Release date: June 26, 2024 [eBook #73921]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The MacMillan Company, 1897

Credits: The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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DOMESTIC SERVICE

DOMESTIC SERVICE

BY
LUCY MAYNARD SALMON

SECOND EDITION

WITH AN ADDITIONAL CHAPTER ON DOMESTIC
SERVICE IN EUROPE

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1901

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1897,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped February, 1897. Revised edition
printed March, 1901.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood, Mass. U.S.A.

“The reform that applies itself to the household must not be partial. It must correct the whole system of our social living. It must come with plain living and high thinking; it must break up caste, and put domestic service on another foundation. It must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation,—not chosen by his parents or friends, but by his genius, with earnestness and love.”

EMERSON.