Domestic Service

About this eBook

Author

Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927

Title

Domestic service

Original Publication

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1897, pubdate 1901.

Credits

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

Language

English

LoC Class

HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Subject

Household employees

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 73921

Release Date

June 26, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DOMESTIC SERVICE
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.DOMESTIC SERVICE — CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
6. 6.CHAPTER II HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF DOMESTIC EMPLOYMENTS
7. 7.CHAPTER III DOMESTIC SERVICE DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD
8. 8.CHAPTER IV DOMESTIC SERVICE SINCE THE COLONIAL PERIOD
9. 9.CHAPTER V ECONOMIC PHASES OF DOMESTIC SERVICE [185] — TABLE I Place of Birth of Employees — TABLE II Domestic Employees in the United States, 1890 — TABLE III Proportion of Persons of Foreign Birth in the United States — TABLE IV Place of Birth of Domestic Employees — TABLE V Number of Foreign Born in Domestic Service — TABLE VI Domestic Servants and Women compared with those in Gainful Occupations — TABLE VII Average Weekly Wages by Geographical Section — TABLE VIII Average Weekly and Daily Wages by Occupations — TABLE IX Nature of Service rendered — TABLE X Comparison of Wages paid — TABLE XI Classified Daily and Weekly Wages by Occupations — TABLE XII [209] Average Weekly and Daily Wages by Occupations — TABLE XIII Classified Weekly Wages by Occupations — TABLE XIV Average Weekly Wages by Occupations — TABLE XV Classified Annual Salaries of Women Teachers — TABLE XVI Average Annual Salaries of Women Teachers
10. 10.CHAPTER VI DIFFICULTIES IN DOMESTIC SERVICE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE EMPLOYER
11. 11.CHAPTER VII ADVANTAGES IN DOMESTIC SERVICE — TABLE XVII Vacation granted during the Year — TABLE XVIII Vacation granted with or without Loss of Wages
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII THE INDUSTRIAL DISADVANTAGES OF DOMESTIC SERVICE — TABLE XIX Actual Daily Working Hours
13. 13.CHAPTER IX THE SOCIAL DISADVANTAGES OF DOMESTIC SERVICE
14. 14.CHAPTER X DOUBTFUL REMEDIES
15. 15.CHAPTER XI POSSIBLE REMEDIES—GENERAL PRINCIPLES
16. 16.CHAPTER XII POSSIBLE REMEDIES—IMPROVEMENT IN SOCIAL CONDITION
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII POSSIBLE REMEDIES—SPECIALIZATION OF HOUSEHOLD EMPLOYMENTS
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV POSSIBLE REMEDIES—PROFIT SHARING
19. 19.CHAPTER XV POSSIBLE REMEDIES—EDUCATION IN HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI CONCLUSION
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII DOMESTIC SERVICE IN EUROPE
22. 22.FOOTNOTES
23. 23.APPENDICES
24. 24.APPENDIX I — SCHEDULE No. I.—EMPLOYERS STATISTICS OF DOMESTIC SERVICE — SCHEDULE No. II.—EMPLOYEES STATISTICS OF DOMESTIC SERVICE — SCHEDULE No. III.—SCHOOLS, Etc. STATISTICS OF DOMESTIC SERVICE
25. 25.APPENDIX II
26. 26.APPENDIX III — STANDARDS OF WORK AND WAGES IN HOUSEHOLD LABOR
27. 27.BIBLIOGRAPHY FULL TITLES OF WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT
28. 28.INDEX
29. 29.Untitled

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