The opening chapter provides an overview of domestic service in the Western tradition, most notably a detailed history of servitude in the South and northeastern United States, with brief attention to a few non-Western locales. Then, what follows is a description of the conditions of work—the physical labor, hours, compensation, and problems—with the focus on the women and the major dynamics of their relationships. Unlike many works on domination, this book gives as much attention to the effects on the minds and lives of the employers as it does to the effects on the domestics. And it is this exploration, in particular—of the demands, reactions, preferences and perceptions of employers—that reveals how this labor arrangement functions ideologically as well as materially to support the class, gender and racial hierarchies of this country.
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