Union Maids Not Wanted
Raaphorst, D L van
Housework and domestic service have become popular topics within the scholarly community...Van Raaphorst ...adds to this growing literature by illuminating the efforts to organize domestics in the years from the Civil War to WWII. The book does much more than this however. It surveys the period from early colonization to the 1930s and divides the history of domestic service into four distinct chronological eras...The author examines the psycho...