Domestic service in Australia
ISBN: 9780522850116
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Melbourne University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Australasian/ Oceanian;

European Australia regularly contracted domestic service as a civilizing force, not only because it enabled a cultured life for the leisured employing classes but also because it facilitated the dissemination of bourgeois models of domesticity and encouraged fertility. This study is the first attempt to produce a comprehensive account of the lives of domestic servants in Australia and an interpretation of the significance of domestic service for the larger society and economy.


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