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020			_a9780393241099 (hardcover)
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020			_a0393241092 (hardcover)
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050	0	0	_aHD8039.D52 _bG7766 2013b
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100	1		_aLethbridge, Lucy, _eauthor _95871
245	1	0	_aServants : _ba downstairs history of Britain from the nineteenth century to modern times / _cLucy Lethbridge
250			_aFirst American Edition
264		1	_aNew York : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c2013
264		4	_c©2013
300			_axi, 385 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aOriginally published under the title: Servants: a downstairs view of twentieth-century Britain
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 353-368) and index
505	0		_aPreface -- The symbolic pantomime -- "A sort of silence and embarrassment" -- The dainty life -- "A seat in the hall" -- Centralising the egg yolks -- Popinjays and mob caps -- The desire for perfection -- "Some poor girl's got to go up and down, up and down -- " -- The sacred trust -- The ideal village -- "Silent, obsequious and omnipresent" -- Bowing and scraping -- The age of ambivalence -- Out of a cage -- "Don't think your life will be any different to mine" -- "It was exploitation but it worked" -- "Tall, strong, healthy and keen to work" -- The mechanical maid -- Outer show and inner life -- A vast machine that has forgotten how to stop working -- Bachelor establishments are notoriously comfortable -- The question of the inner life -- "Do they really drink out of their saucers?' -- "Of alien origin" -- A new Jerusalem -- A new and useful life -- The housewife militant -- "The change : it must have been terrible for them" -- The shape of things to come -- "We don't want them days again' -- "We've moved to the front" -- "I'd never done what i liked -- never in all my life" -- "We like it because the past is not so worrying as the news" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index
520			_aA compassionate and discerning exploration of the complex relationship between the server, the served, and the world they lived in, Servants opens a window onto British society from the Edwardian period to the present
650		0	_aHousehold employees _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century _95872
650		0	_aHousehold employees _zGreat Britain _xAttitudes _95873
650		0	_aSocial classes _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century _95874
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xSocial conditions _y20th century _95875
907			_a.b114988687
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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