Domestic service

Frequency of discussion of domestic service 1 Personal character of the discussion 2 Omission of the subject from economic discussion 2 General reasons for this omission 2 Speci...

Condition of industries in the eighteenth century 7 Inventions of the latter part of the century 7 Immediate result of these inventions 8 Co-operating influences 8 Effect of inv...

Domestic service has a history 16 Three periods of this history 16 The colonial period 16 Classes of servants during this period 17 Early reasons for colonizing America 17 Advan...

Second period in history of domestic service 54 Substitution for redemptioners of American “help” 54 Democratic condition of service 55 Observations of European travellers 55 Ch...

Domestic service amenable to economic law 74 Many domestic employees of foreign birth 74 Geographical distribution of foreign born employees 75 Concentration of foreign born wom...

Conditions of the average family 107 Difficulties in domestic service 108 Prevalence of foreign born employees 108 Restlessness among employees 109 Employment in skilled labor o...

Personnel in domestic service 130 Reasons why women enter domestic service 131 High wages 131 Occupation healthful 132 It gives externals of home life 133 Special home privilege...

Reasons why women do not choose domestic service 140 No opportunity for promotion 141 Work in itself not difficult 142 “Housework is never done” 142 Lack of organization 143 Irr...

Lack of home life 151 Lack of social opportunities 152 Lack of intellectual opportunities 153 Badges of social inferiority 154 Use of word “servant” 155 The Christian name in ad...

Difference of opinion in regard to remedies possible 167 General principles to be applied 168 The golden rule 169 Capability and intelligence of employer 170 Receiving the emplo...

Remedies must take into account past and present conditions 194 Industrial tendencies 194 Concentration of capital and labor 194 Specialization of labor 195 Associations for mut...

Social disadvantages 204 Possibility of removing them 204 Provision for social enjoyment 205 Abolishing the word “servant” 207 Disuse of the Christian name in address 209 Regula...

Putting household employments on a business basis 212 Articles formerly made only in the household 212 Articles in a transitional state 213 Articles now usually made in the hous...

Industrial disadvantages of domestic service 235 Industrial difficulties in other occupations still unsettled 236 Possible relief through profit sharing 236 Definition of profit...

Lack of information one obstacle in the household 251 Difference between information and education 251 What is included in information 251 Difficulty of obtaining information in...

Summary of points considered 263 Failure to recognize industrial character of domestic service 264 Conservatism of women 264 Summary of difficulties 265 Explanation of difficult...

Opinion held in America 275 Ideal service not found in Europe 275 Influences that affect the question 276 External conditions that affect the question 277 Architecture a factor...

Domestic service has been called “the great American question.” If based on the frequency of its discussion in popular literature, foundation for this judgment exists. Few subje...

It is impossible to understand the condition of domestic service as it exists to-day without a cursory glance at the changes in household employments resulting from the inventio...

It has been seen how great a change the inventions of the past century have made in the character of household employments. A change in the nature of household service no less i...

It has been said that domestic service in America has passed through three distinct phases. The second phase began about the time of the Revolution, when at the North the indent...

The attempt has been made in the foregoing chapters to indicate the extent to which domestic employments and domestic service have been influenced by industrial and political ev...

The understanding of domestic service has been seen to involve the consideration of many historical changes both industrial and political, and an examination of the general econ...

The question as to who constitute the class of domestic employees has been partially answered. One fourth are of foreign birth or belong to a different race from that of their e...

No one occupation includes every advantage and no disadvantages. There must always be a balancing of the pros and cons, and domestic service has its industrial disadvantages, wh...

The most serious disadvantage in domestic service that remains to be considered is the low social position the employment entails at the present time on those who enter it. This...

The difficulties attending domestic service are so many and so pressing that a large number of measures intended to meet them have been proposed, all of them as varied as the pe...

It has been seen that any measure looking towards a lessening of the difficulties that stand in the way of securing at all times and in all places competent domestic employees,...

Certain general principles have been suggested in accordance with which it seems reasonable to expect improvement in domestic service to be made. Of specific remedies, the first...

The efforts to remove the social stigma that now brands domestic service will not alone accomplish the desired result. Another means of lessening the difficulties in the modern...

Domestic service, as has been seen, is accompanied by certain social conditions that prevent many from entering the occupation. The present unclassified state of household emplo...

One of the greatest obstacles in the way of improving domestic service has been the prevailing lack of information in regard to household affairs and of careful, systematic educ...

Any study of the subject of domestic service must lead to the conclusion that household service and household employments do not occupy an isolated position; that while they may...

It is apparently a common belief in America that there are no difficulties in domestic service in Europe, as it is an equally common belief in Europe that the difficulties in do...