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Love, Wages, Slavery
Barbara Ryan
其他書名
The Literature of Servitude in the United States
出版
University of Illinois Press
, 2006
主題
Business & Economics / Labor / General
History / United States / 19th Century
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN
0252030710
9780252030710
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_n4LyRbqjH8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"With the home the sacred center of social life in the nineteenth-century United States, few social tensions carried more weight than "the servant problem." As slavery tore at the nation, tension about domestic dependency became a heated topic to which publishers responded by producing a steady stream of literature instructing homemakers how to hire, treat, and discipline staff. In Love, Wages, Slavery, Barbara Ryan surveys an expansive collection of these published materials to chart shifts in thinking about what made a servant "good" and how servitors felt about attending non-kin, as well as changing ideas about gender, waged and chattel labor, status, race, and family life." "Love, Wages, Slavery examines the nature of "free" servitude before and after Emancipation through an in-depth comparison of negotiations of attendance and household management. Paying particular attention to women servants, Ryan traces a complex discussion as it developed in such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Godey's Lady's Book, and Harper's Bazar."--BOOK JACKET.