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Feminism and the Servant Problem: Class and Domestic Labour in the Women's Suffrage Movement

Laura Schwartz

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Description:In the early twentieth century, women fought for the right to professional employment and political influence outside the home. Yet if liberation from household ‘drudgery’ meant employing another woman to do it, where did this leave domestic servants?Both inspired and frustrated by the growing feminist movement, servants began forming their own trade unions, demanding better conditions and rights at work. Feminism and the Servant Problem is the first history of how these militant maids and their mistresses joined forces in the struggle for the vote but also clashed over competing class interests. Laura Schwartz uncovers a forgotten history of domestic worker organising and early feminist thinking on reproductive labour, and offers a new perspective on the class politics of the suffrage movement, challenging traditional notions of who made up the British working class.Laura Schwartz is Associate Professor of Modern British History at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on the history of British feminism, and is the author of A Serious Endeavour: Gender Education and Community at St Hugh’s, 1886–2011 (2011) and Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women’s Emancipation in England 1830–1914 (2013).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Feminism and the Servant Problem: Class and Domestic Labour in the Women's Suffrage Movement. To get started finding Feminism and the Servant Problem: Class and Domestic Labour in the Women's Suffrage Movement, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 143

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Release: 2019

ISBN: 1108471331

Description: In the early twentieth century, women fought for the right to professional employment and political influence outside the home. Yet if liberation from household ‘drudgery’ meant employing another woman to do it, where did this leave domestic servants?Both inspired and frustrated by the growing feminist movement, servants began forming their own trade unions, demanding better conditions and rights at work. Feminism and the Servant Problem is the first history of how these militant maids and their mistresses joined forces in the struggle for the vote but also clashed over competing class interests. Laura Schwartz uncovers a forgotten history of domestic worker organising and early feminist thinking on reproductive labour, and offers a new perspective on the class politics of the suffrage movement, challenging traditional notions of who made up the British working class.Laura Schwartz is Associate Professor of Modern British History at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on the history of British feminism, and is the author of A Serious Endeavour: Gender Education and Community at St Hugh’s, 1886–2011 (2011) and Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women’s Emancipation in England 1830–1914 (2013).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Feminism and the Servant Problem: Class and Domestic Labour in the Women's Suffrage Movement. To get started finding Feminism and the Servant Problem: Class and Domestic Labour in the Women's Suffrage Movement, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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