{"product_id":"labours-lost-domestic-service-and-the-making-of-modern-england-hardback-9780521516372","title":"Labours Lost; Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England (Hardback) 9780521516372","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLabours Lost\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDomestic Service and the Making of Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarolyn Steedman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521516372, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e426 pages, 38 b\/w illus.  8 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.8 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'This highly readable book is remarkable for the level of detail unearthed about the daily experience of domestic service … Her overwhelming evidence and convincing analysis should call historians of labor, gender, and culture to attend to its claims and to set to work immediately on reconfiguring the larger historical narratives of the working classes; class consciousness; gender relations; the relationship between humans and animals; and conceptions of the self, privacy, and personal identity.' Dana Rabin, Journal of British Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England and of how servants thought about and articulated their resentments. It is a book which encompasses state formation and the maidservant pounding away at dirty nappies in the back kitchen; taxes on the servant's labour and the knives he cleaned, the water he fetched, and the privy he shovelled out. Carolyn Steedman shows how deeply entwined all of these entities, objects and people were in the imagination of those doing the shovelling and pounding and in the political philosophies that attempted to make sense of it all. Rather than fitting domestic service into conventional narratives of `industrial revolution' or `the making of the English working class' she offers instead a profound re-reading of this formative period in English social history which restores the servants' lost labours to their rightful place.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologue: the servant's dream\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: a new view of society\u003cbr\u003e 2. Servants numberless: theories of labour and property\u003cbr\u003e 3. Frances Hamilton's labour\u003cbr\u003e Necessity: 4. Lord Mansfield's women\u003cbr\u003e 5. In a free state\u003cbr\u003e Horses: 6. The law of everyday life\u003cbr\u003e 7. Policing society\u003cbr\u003e servant-stories: 8. Servants and childcare: Ann Mead's murder\u003cbr\u003e 9. Food for thought\u003cbr\u003e 10. An ode on a dishclout\u003cbr\u003e 11. A servant's wages\u003cbr\u003e Stays: 12. 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