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	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Lauderdale Graham, House and Street
		Or a slave woman, long the servant to a single family, might be treated with affection or regard, rewarded with her freedom, while a free woman with the right to leave whenever she chose could be viewed with suspicion and given little care.
		To the extent that servants worked and lived under similar conditions, there might be little by which to distinguish free women from slaves: any servant might experience long hours of exhausting labor, damp quarters, inadequate diet, or the illnesses that generally characterized the life of the working poor.
		Because the lives of servant women were so profoundly linked to the changes in urban life, dates that appropriately frame a history of the women also refer to a period of major reform that altered the city's physical and social landscape between 1860 and 1910.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exlauhop.html (2742 words)

	Domestic worker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Servants are distinguishable from serfs or slaves in that they are compensated, that is, they must receive payment (and, following labour reforms in the 20th Century, benefits) for their work.
		Domestic workers perform typical domestic chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning the house, buying foods and drinks, accompanying the female head of the household for grocery shopping, taking the family dog for a walk, and taking care of the children.
		Domestic service reached its height during the Edwardian and Victorian ages in Great Britain and the Gilded Age in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Servant_(domestic) (1031 words)

	Domestic slavery
		Domestic slavery is the situation of a vulnerable individual forced, by physical and/or moral coercion, to work without any real financial reward, deprived of liberty and in a situation contrary to human dignity.
		Domestic workers are cut off from their family and friends, since the employer forbids them to carry on any correspondence and receive or make telephone calls.
		Migrant domestic workers must be informed, before they leave their country of origin, of the working conditions (minimum wage, working hours, etc.) to which they are entitled and the immigration law of the country of destination.
	assembly.coe.int /Documents/WorkingDocs/doc01/EDOC9102.htm (5952 words)

	CHAPTER XLI. -- DOMESTIC SERVANTS.
		The domestic duties of the butler are to bring in the eatables at breakfast, and wait upon the family at that meal, assisted by the footman, and see to the cleanliness of everything at table.
		The general servant, or maid-of-all-work, is perhaps the only one of her class deserving of commiseration: her life is a solitary one, and in, some places, her work is never done.
		When the servant is dressed, she takes in the tea, and after tea turns down the beds, sees that the water-jugs and bottles are full, closes the windows, and draws down the blinds.
	www.exclassics.com /beeton/beet41.htm (17548 words)

	Tocqueville: Book III Chapter 5
		In the society of servants, as in that of masters, men exercise a great influence over one another: they acknowledge settled rules, and in the ab- sence of law they are guided by a sort of public opinion; their habits are settled, and their conduct is placed under a certain control.
		Servants, on their part, are not averse to regarding themselves in the same light; and they sometimes identify themselves with the person of the master, so that they become an appendage to him in their own eyes as well as in his.
		On their part, masters require nothing of their servants but the faithful and rigorous performance of the covenant: they do not ask for marks of respect, they do not claim their love or devoted attachment; it is enough that, as servants, they are exact and honest.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/DETOC/ch3_05.htm (2973 words)

	"Loyal saints or devious rascals": domestic servants in Edith Wharton's stories "The Lady's Maid's Bell" and "All ...
		Servants are particularly intriguing to study in Wharton's short fiction because the subject has been inadequately addressed in previous studies.
		To understand Wharton's interest in servants, it helps to recognize that she was writing at a time when servants were de rigueur for upper- and middle-class families.
		Particularly for women, becoming a servant was one of the few options for work outside their own homes; thus, from one-third to one-half of the entire female work force at the turn of the century was employed in domestic service.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_4_36/ai_90990562 (717 words)

	Wisconsin Workers Compensation - Information Regarding Domestic Servants and Home-Care Providers
		However, "domestic servants" are specifically excluded from the definition of "employee" for persons in the service of another under s.
		Any claim filed by a domestic servant injured while performing services under these conditions is decided on a case-by-case basis according to the facts and circumstances at the time of injury.
		If a temporary help agency or an employee leasing company places, loans or leases an employee to provide home-care or domestic servant services, either directly to a recipient (client) or on behalf of a county, the temporary help agency or employee leasing company is the employer for worker's compensation purposes.
	www.dwd.state.wi.us /wc/employers/domestics.htm (2024 words)

	Windows on Victoria - 200 Years of Victoria's History - Domestic Servants - Museum Victoria, Australia
		Women workers were generally employed as domestic servants, in clothing factories and as piece-workers at home.
		Domestic servants were widely criticised for asking too much — even though they were poorly paid and worked long hours.
		Although occasionally the long working hours of domestic servants gained public attention, this practice was rarely criticised.
	www.museum.vic.gov.au /windows/8hrs/domestic.asp (450 words)

	Martin Van Buren National Historic Site - People (U.S. National Park Service)
		However, domestic service also made the middle-class "cult of domesticity" possible, for while "ladies" cultivated personal delicacy in ever more genteel domestic settings, immigrant and fl women were assigned the back-breaking labor of maintaining stylish parlors and wardrobes, the props upon which the intricate iconography of the Victorian home was constructed.
		Furthermore, detailed personal sources are limited generally because domestic service was the painful relationship to which Emerson bore witness, an episode in the history of the home that was often shoved under the carpet, so to speak, both contemporaneously by domestics and employers themselves, and subsequently by museums.
		Servants' rooms lacked the privacy enjoyed by employers; not only were they vulnerable to the intrusions of the call bell) they were often shared with other servants.
	www.nps.gov /mava/historyculture/people.htm (5278 words)

	The Bronx Slave Market: Change in Twentieth Century Household Help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The story of domestic servants in the twentieth century obviously has to do with the latter, changes in the daily life of the household.
		Domestic servants were unprotected by the kinds of wage and hour laws that covered industrial workers.
		This new cult of domesticity, or feminine mystique, as Betty Friedan called it, did not fit many women, of course, since more married women were in the workforce, and the ideal certainly did not apply to those women were servants.
	www.columbia.edu /~aje4/jobtalk.html (2616 words)

	Victorian Servants
		By the 1880s, servants were given a half-day off on Sundays, starting after lunch (and only if all their chores for that morning had been completed), and they were usually given one day off each month, starting after breakfast, and again, their chores all had to be finished first.
		This was the time when the domestic staff had pillow fights; when there was laughter; when there was music, fiddling, piano-playing, dancing and singing; when some servants got drunk; when some played practical jokes on each other, and some flirted with each other—and when some even went as far as to “cohabitate” with each other.
		Granted, there are documented exceptions to this rule, sometimes with the servants even gaining the approval and encouragement of their employers, but for the most part, breaking the “no followers rule” generally carried severe penalties for domestics, especially when the rule was broken with fellow employees.
	www.ourwardfamily.com /victorian_servants.htm (4316 words)

	Domestic Servants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Domestic servants were divided into upper and lower classes.
		In 1861 at No. 1 lived widow Jemima Budges, a landed proprietress aged 60, with her two sons and five live-in servants: housekeeper, cook, housemaid, butler, and general servant.
		In 1851 landed proprietress Elizabeth Nilson, aged 75, lived at The Croft with her daughter and three grandchildren, a governess, a lady's maid, a children's maid, a housemaid, a cook, a kitchenmaid, a gardener and two footmen.
	www.victorianweb.org /gender/wojtczak/servants.html (357 words)

	Stepping Stones to Empowerment: Chinese Servants in the American West
		As a result, male Chinese laborers assumed the usually female role of domestic servant on the West Coast of the United States and Canada, despite efforts to recruit from traditional sources in the eastern and southern states.
		Domestic service involved cooking, cleaning, waiting table, laundry, child care, and the hundreds of other tasks that the primary caregiver in each home provided.
		Domestic service provided the Chinese with an experience at the heart of the culture, within the Caucasian home, in the bosom of the family; an experience that offered glimpses of needs that could be fulfilled from the margin.
	www.uidaho.edu /special-collections/papers/stepping.htm (4551 words)

	\| Book Review \| Labour History, 83 \| The History Cooperative
		He was intrigued also by the absence of male domestics in the 1970s Australian re-discovery of the history of housework, and started to search for evidence of their existence.
		Though he found some male domestic workers during the convict years, those men who were later classified as domestic servants in Australia worked mostly outside the house as gardeners, grooms or stable hands.
		His account of the work of domestic servants in Chapter 5 is anchored on Eliza Darling’s Simple Rules for the guidance of Persons in Humble Life, published in London in 1834, and the 1931 edition of Lillian M. Pyke’s Australian Etiquette, both books of advice rather than accounts of real practice.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/83/br_3.html (855 words)

	endeavors magazine .: unc-chapel hill
		There were women who had worked in domestic service from the time they were 12 years old, women who had left domestic service jobs because of illness or better job opportunities, women who worked as head domestic servants managing a team of other servants.
		When she sat down with domestic servants to discuss their budgets, they always reported spending more than they brought into the household.
		Néia is a domestic servant, and her husband is a road construction worker.
	research.unc.edu /endeavors/fall2002/brazilian_servants_2.html (832 words)

	Chinese Servants in the North American West
		The demand for domestic labor eventually met the supply of Chinese workers, resulting in male Chinese laborers assuming the usually female role of domestic servant on the West Coast of the United States and Canada, despite efforts to recruit from traditional sources in the eastern and southern states.
		The presence of the 'inferior' domestic, an inferiority evidenced by the performance she is encouraged to execute and her acceptance of demeaning treatment, offers the employer justification for materially exploiting the domestic, ego enhancement as an individual, and a strengthening of the employer's class and racial identities.
		Florence Grohman's observations on servants in British Columbia, entitled "The Yellow and White Agony: A Chapter on Western Servants," are appended to her husband's reminiscences on hunting in the West.
	www.uidaho.edu /special-collections/papers/chservnt.htm (8211 words)

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		Some of these domestic servants stay in the houses where they work and many of them generally come on a part time basis and do the household work and go back to their houses.
		On the other side, house owners also indulge in cruelty and harassment to domestic servants and in some cases social evils like child labour and bonded labour system is also prevailing.
		Keeping a close watch on domestic servants who are working in the house of old and infirm persons who are highly vulnerable to robberies.
	www.udupipages.com /home/pages/police1.html (1304 words)

	UK immigration rules on marriage, domestic servants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For entry clearance purposes, they must have been employed as a domestic worker for one year or more immediately prior to the application for entry clearance, and living under the same roof as their employer.
		On another note, it is to be noted that it is a criminal offence to hold the passport of a domestic worker without their permission and refuse to return it upon demand.
		Equally, there are strict rules against the abuse of domestic workers, such as keeping them under lock and key against their will, having sex with them without their consent, and behaving violently towards them.
	www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/immigration3.13199.html (1405 words)

	General Information for Personal or Domestic Servants
		U.S. immigration law does not bestow on U.S. citizens the inherent right to take alien domestic servants with them to the U.S. Under certain conditions, a domestic servant may be eligible to accompany a U.S. citizen or a nonresident alien employer temporarily assigned to the United States.
		However, permanent resident aliens are not allowed to bring domestic servants with them to the U.S. The U.S. citizen employer must establish to the satisfaction of the consular officer that he/she has a permanent residence abroad to which he/she will return after a temporary stay in the United States.
		Eligible applicants are issued annotated B-1 visas (domestic servant of U.S. citizen/nonresident alien "XXXX" family).
	www.usembassyjakarta.org /consular/servants.html (351 words)

	HumanTrafficking.org \| News & Updates: Domestic Servants Worldwide Suffer Physical and Psychological Abuse
		Many domestic workers across the world endure conditions akin to slavery, from physical and psychological abuse to working for months without pay and being locked up.
		The New York-based group, which looked at domestic workers in and from a dozen nations from Asia, to Africa, to the Middle East, said it carried out interviews with hundreds of victims, employees, labor agents and aid workers between 1999 and 2005.
		In Latin America, sexual harassment of domestic workers was characterized as a "widespread phenomenon." In Guatemala, one-third of the adult domestic workers interviewed suffered some kind of unwanted sexual approaches, most when they were adolescents in their first jobs.
	www.humantrafficking.org /updates/399 (720 words)

	Special Report 8, Philadelphia Negro - W.E.B. DuBois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is doubtless to be accounted for by the fact that 70 per cent of colored domestic servants are women, and the illiteracy of colored women is uniformly greater than that of colored men.
		This comparison seems to indicate that the grade of intelligence of women servants, white and colored, is practically the same, while the colored men servants are of a higher grade of intelligence than are white men servants.
		Omitting the 45-65 period, which is not fairly comparable with the ages of colored domestic servants (their average age being 30.3), it will be seen that the average illness among the English working people is nearly the same as that among colored domestics of the same age.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/DuBois/pnsprt8.html (1274 words)

	Vanguard -Viewpoint : ‘It’s evil to treat child domestic servants so harshly’
		During the seminar which was attended by mostly domestic servants and children from public schools most of whom are living with relations and others not related to them, the children shared their experiences with the organisers and counsellors who were present at the seminars.
		In their comments, the children revealed that they are not happy not living with their parents; that they work too hard and get easily abused by their employers and their relations; that they do not go to school and are neither appreciated nor given proper medical attention when sick.
		One of the speakers at the seminar, Professor Sarah Oloko who spoke on Domestic Work or Forced Labour: The Plight of Child Domestic Servants, lamented that some of these children were brought from the hinterland to the cities with fantastic promises of good life in the cities.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/viewpoints/vp224062006.html (608 words)

	The Hindu : Record antecedents of domestic servants, residents told
		The City Police Commissioner, K.Vijay Kumar, today said furnishing details of the antecedents of domestic servants was only a precautionary measure and solely for the necessity of policing.
		He said several residents were hesitant to part with details as they felt it would hurt the sentiments of their domestic help.
		He said the police had embarked on the move to collect antecedents of domestic help solely because of their involvement in several crime cases.
	www.hindu.com /2003/10/28/stories/2003102808670300.htm (289 words)

	Martin VanBuren National Historic Site (Lindenwald) - Kinderhook, NY
		It was argued that servants' rooms ought to be "entirely separate" from "main" areas, and that servants should have access to these "main" areas only through "passages." [28] Lindenwald, fashionable home that it was, incorporates all of these standards to some extent.
		Thus, as Daniel Sutherland puts it, servants were "in the household but not of it." [29] They constituted a separate society within a society, inhabiting especially awkward and uncomfortable spaces while tending to the comfort of others, forced to recognize the glaring contrasts between two distinct lifestyles under one roof.
		[back] Historians have argued that the ideology of middle-class feminine domesticity arose in part as a means by which middle-class women could distinguish themselves from the new class of working women.
	www.nps.gov /mava/mvwestp.htm (5205 words)

	A modern day slave trade: Indonesian domestic servants in Malaysia
		The plight of Indonesian maids in Malaysia was graphically highlighted in May when 19-year-old Nirmala Bonat from West Timor was discovered by neighbours in the hallway of her employer’s apartment suffering from severe burns to her chest, back and legs.
		According to Malaysian officials, 240,000 women are working as domestic servants in the country and over 90 percent are Indonesian.
		Many opt for domestic work, as it requires no upfront fee and the women believe that they can save more money because they are provided with food and board.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/aug2004/migr-a16.shtml (1803 words)

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