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The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London

The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London

Hardcover

Series: Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0754661555
ISBN13: 9780754661559
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 28 2011
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
These late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. This volume exposes the contractual underpinnings of domestic service, suggesting female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis. The depositions in this volume show that service was a prototypical form of female wage labour rather than a pre-marital life phase. Voices of the non-literate in this volume are clear and distinct as they present their working and personal circumstances.

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