TY - BOOK ID - 85468888 TI - Feminism and the servant problem : class and domestic labour in the women's suffrage movement PY - 2019 SN - 1108694756 1108603262 1108471331 1108655513 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Household employees KW - Feminism KW - Social conflict KW - Class conflict KW - Class struggle KW - Conflict, Social KW - Social tensions KW - Interpersonal conflict KW - Social psychology KW - Sociology KW - Domestic employees KW - Domestic service employees KW - Domestic service workers KW - Domestics KW - Household staff KW - Household workers KW - Servants KW - Service employees, Domestic KW - Service workers, Domestic KW - Employees KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85468888 AB - In the early twentieth century, women fought for the right to professional employment and political influence outside the home. Yet if liberation from household 'drudgery' meant employing another woman to do it, where did this leave domestic servants? Both inspired and frustrated by the growing feminist movement, servants began forming their own trade unions, demanding better conditions and rights at work. Feminism and the Servant Problem is the first ever history of how these militant maids and their mistresses joined forces in the struggle for the vote but also clashed over competing class interests. Laura Schwartz uncovers a forgotten history of domestic worker organising and early feminist thinking on reproductive labour, and offers a new perspective on the class politics of the suffrage movement, challenging traditional notions of who made up the British working-class. ER -