The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London by Humfrey, Paula

The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754661559)

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The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London by Humfrey, Paula

The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London

$225.00
The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London by Humfrey, Paula

The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London

$225.00
Format: Hardcover
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These late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. This volume exposes the contractual underpinnings of domestic service, suggesting female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis. The depositions in this volume show that service was a prototypical form of female wage labour rather than a pre-marital life phase. Voices of the non-literate in this volume are clear and distinct as they present their working and personal circumstances.

Author: Paula Humfrey
ISBN-10: 0754661555
ISBN-13: 9780754661559
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2011
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 86
By Paula Humfrey
By Paula Humfrey
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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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