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Des champs aux cuisines : Histoires de la domesticité en Rhône et Loire (1848-1940) / Margot Beal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beal, Margot
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Women's Studies.
- domestic work.
- popular class.
- woman.
- classe populaire.
- femme.
- travail.
- Local Subjects:
- Women's Studies.
- domestic work.
- popular class.
- woman.
- classe populaire.
- femme.
- travail.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lyon : ENS Éditions, 2019.
- Language Note:
- French
- Summary:
- Ce livre sur la domesticité rémunérée en France, du milieu du XIXe au milieu du XXe siècle, s’intéresse particulièrement aux cas du Rhône et de la Loire. D’inspiration féministe, il interroge la catégorie de « domestiques », fabriquée par l’État et le patronat français, comme moyen d’exploitation privilégié des femmes et des classes populaires. Il évoque les rémunérations, les conditions de travail et de vie, qu’il compare au reste du monde ouvrier et paysan. Il traite conjointement domesticité rurale et urbaine, hommes et femmes, dans un contexte économique varié (des bassins industriels et des villages agricoles). S’appuyant sur des sources judiciaires, administratives et privées, l’auteure s’attache à sortir du topos littéraire de la jeune domestique soumise et impuissante et retrace dans un style vif et clair des parcours de vie de domestiques tout en produisant des analyses originales à destination d’un large public. This book on the subject of paid domestic service in mid-19th to mid-20th century France focuses specifically on the Rhône and Loire region. Based on a Ph.D. thesis in labour history, this work examines, through a feminist lens, the creation of the “domestic worker” category both by the State and the employer class as a preferred means of exploiting women and the working classes. It discusses the wages, working and living conditions, and degree of freedom of domestic workers, comparing them with those of other manual workers and farmers. The book covers domestic service in both urban and rural contexts, men and women, in a varied economic landscape (both heavily industrialised areas and farming villages). Using legal, administrative and private sources, the author seeks to go beyond the literary tops of the obedient and powerless female domestic worker by describing, in a clear and vivid style, the lives of domestic workers and by offering an original analysis of the exploitation to which they were subjected.
- Notes:
- OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554
- ISBN:
- 979-1-03-620138-7
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