Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
Carolyn Steedman
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Description for Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
hardcover. A unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England. Num Pages: 426 pages, 38 b/w illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. .
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 all of these entities, objects and people were in the imagination of those doing the shovelling and pounding and in the political philosophies that attempted to ... Read more
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 all of these entities, objects and people were in the imagination of those doing the shovelling and pounding and in the political philosophies that attempted to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521516372
SKU
V9780521516372
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99-12
About Carolyn Steedman
Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Her previous publications include Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (2007) and Dust (2001).
Reviews for Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
'Steedman … wants to do more than simply revise our ideas about who did what in the Hanoverian household. Her overarching aim is to put domestic servants back into the grand narrative of British class formation.' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian 'Academics and students of social history and literature, as well as biographers, will find this new work invaluable. [Steedman] takes us ... Read more