Domestic service in Australia / B.W. Higman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higman, B. W., 1943-

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Household employees--Australia--Social conditions.

Household employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 358 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

1. Places/Positions/Situations

2. Long-term trends

3. Employers and employees

4. Recruitment

5. Domestic work

6. Rewards and regulation

7. Domestic architecture

8. Deference and defiance

9. Cycles of service

Appendix: Measuring the servant population

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography (p. 316-345) and index.

ISBN:

9780522850116

0522850111

Publisher Number:

2027/heb03431 hdl