{"product_id":"domestic-service-in-the-soviet-union-womens-emancipation-and-the-gendered-hierarchy-of-labor-paperback-softback-9781009467162","title":"Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009467162","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDomestic Service in the Soviet Union\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis innovative study is the first to explore the evolution and ideological contradictions of domestic service in the Soviet Union.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlissa Klots (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009467162, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e318 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.446 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… Alissa Klots's book represents a landmark contribution to Soviet historiography, opening new analytical pathways for examining live-in domestic labor.' Tamar Qeburia, H-Soz-Kult\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis innovative study is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union, set against the background of changing discourses on women, labour, and socialist living. Even though domestic service conflicted with the Bolsheviks' egalitarian message, the regime embraced paid domestic labor as a temporary solution to the problem of housework. Analyzing sources ranging from court cases to oral interviews, Alissa Klots demonstrates how the regime both facilitated and thwarted domestic workers' efforts to reinvent themselves as equal members of Soviet society. Here, a desire to make maids and nannies equal participants in the building of socialism clashed with a gendered ideology where housework was women's work. This book serves not only as a window into class and gender inequality under socialism, but as a vantage point to examine the power of state initiatives to improve the lives of household workers in the modern world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: a kitchen maid to rule the state\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: domestic service and the Bolsheviks before 1917\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Servants into Workers, 1920s: 1. From exploitation to socially useful labor: the early soviet discourse on domestic service\u003cbr\u003e 2. Just like any other worker? Class, gender, and labor rights\u003cbr\u003e 3. Kitchen maids in the school of communism: union work and political mobilization\u003cbr\u003e 4. The new soviet domestic worker: the enlightenment campaign and domestic workers' subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e Part II. In The Land of Victorious Socialism, 1930–1950s: 5. The turn to production: domestic workers and the first five-year plan\u003cbr\u003e 6. Serving in a socialist home: paid domestic labor and etatization of the home\u003cbr\u003e 7. Like one of the family: domestic service as a site of intimate negotiations\u003cbr\u003e 8. The meanings of privilege: domestic workers in postwar society\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52509124821272,"sku":"9781009467162","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009467162i.jpg?v=1786492968","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/domestic-service-in-the-soviet-union-womens-emancipation-and-the-gendered-hierarchy-of-labor-paperback-softback-9781009467162","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}