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Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded is perhaps the most influential novel published in Britain in the eighteenth century. On its first publication in 1740, it became an immediate bestseller. Its epistolary structure, tight plotting and didactic message were praised, imitated, but also criticised and satirised. This new critical edition of Samuel Richardson's first novel features an authoritative text based on the first edition, general and textual introductions, extensive explanatory notes and textual apparatus. Appendices provide bibliographical descriptions of all lifetime editions as well as the editions of 1801 and 1810, Richardson's introduction to the second edition (fully annotated), and the illustrations and Richardson's index from the octavo edition. The publication of this volume heralds the first full scholarly edition of Richardson's complete works, a long-awaited event in eighteenth-century studies.

Master and servant --- Kidnapping victims --- Women household employees --- Virtue --- England

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This innovative study is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union, set against the background of changing discourses on women, labour, and socialist living. Even though domestic service conflicted with the Bolsheviks' egalitarian message, the regime embraced paid domestic labor as a temporary solution to the problem of housework. Analyzing sources ranging from court cases to oral interviews, Alissa Klots demonstrates how the regime both facilitated and thwarted domestic workers' efforts to reinvent themselves as equal members of Soviet society. Here, a desire to make maids and nannies equal participants in the building of socialism clashed with a gendered ideology where housework was women's work. This book serves not only as a window into class and gender inequality under socialism, but as a vantage point to examine the power of state initiatives to improve the lives of household workers in the modern world.

Women --- Women employees. --- Political activity. --- Women household employees --- Women employees --- Socialism --- Political activity

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Longtemps ignoré des pouvoirs publics, le travail domestique rémunéré est aujourd'hui de plus en plus régulé. D'abord en marge du champ académique, il est devenu un objet de recherche à part entière. L'Organisation internationale du travail estime à plus de 100 millions le nombre de domestiques à travers le monde. À la croisée de relations salariales et familiales, la domesticité recouvre des réalités diverses : les tâches effectuées, le type d'emploi, les caractéristiques des domestiques, leurs conditions de vie et de travail, leurs trajectoires ou encore leurs luttes collectives sont loin d'être homogènes. Qui fait le travail domestique chez autrui et qui le délègue ? Les domesticités ont-elles des caractéristiques qui résistent au temps et se retrouvent d'un espace géographique à un autre ? Quelles places économiques et politiques occupent-elles aujourd'hui ? Ce livre appréhende les domesticités comme un rapport social, qui cristallise des inégalités sexuées, raciales et socioéconomiques, que la mondialisation et le capitalisme contemporains ne cessent de renforcer.

Women household employees --- Sociology of work --- Travail domestique. --- Employés de maison --- Inégalité sociale. --- Conditions de travail. --- Conditions sociales.

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Employées de maison --- Travailleuses étrangères --- Women household employees --- Women foreign workers --- Statut juridique. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Employées de maison --- Travailleuses étrangères --- Droit.

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More than a million black South African women are domestic workers. These nannies, housekeepers and chars continue to occupy a central place in in postapartheid society. But it is an ambivalent position. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. 'Like family' they may be, but they and their employers know they can never be real family. Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery at the Cape. This established social hierarchies and patterns of behaviour and interaction that persist to the present day, and are still evident in the predicament of the black female domestic worker. To support her argument, Jansen examines the representation of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English and Afrikaans. Authors include André Brink, JM Coetzee, Imraan Coovadia, Nadine Gordimer, Elsa Joubert, Antjie Krog, Sindiwe Magona, Kopano Matlwa, Es'kia Mphahlele, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner and Zoë Wicomb. Later texts by black authors offer wry and subversive insights into the madam/maid nexus, capturing paradoxes relating to shifting power relationships. Like Family is an updated version of the award-winning Soos familie published in 2015 and the highly-acclaimed 2016 Dutch translation, Bijna familie.

Women household employees --- South African literature --- Household employees in literature. --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Household employees --- Domestics in literature --- History. --- History and criticism. --- In literature. --- Household employees. --- Afrikaans literature. --- South African literature. --- South African literature (English) --- Women household employees. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Afrikaans literature --- Sociology --- General. --- Regional Studies. --- Anthropology --- South Africa. --- Domestic employees --- Domestic service employees --- Domestic service workers --- Domestics --- Household staff --- Household workers --- Servants --- Service employees, Domestic --- Service workers, Domestic --- Employees --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- English literature --- South African literature (Afrikaans) --- Africa, South