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Paperback Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain Book
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ISBN: 0198718241

ISBN13: 9780198718246

Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain

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Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth century employment of maids and cooks to later practices of employing au pairs, mothers' helps, and cleaners. Lucy Delap tells the story of lives and labour within twentieth century British homes, from great houses to suburbs and slums, and charts the interactions...

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