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| | domestic service: Information From Answers.com |
 | | Domestic service evolved into a hierarchical system in various countries at various times. | | | In 1950 the old-age insurance system was expanded to include household employees who were regularly employed, and in the social security amendments of 1954 old-age and survivors' insurance were extended to domestic servants regardless of work regularity. | | | In Great Britain domestic workers are covered by national health and unemployment insurance schemes. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/domestic-service
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| | H-Net Review: Patty Seleski on Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750: Life and Work in the London ... |
| | Also outdated are previous accounts of domestic service that have relied on sociology and on modernization theory and that have overemphasized service's teleology as a narrative of change. | | | From these depositions, he outlines a highly compelling and original account of servants' actual work and their workday; their relationships both in- and outside the household; and of the way in which the experience of service varied by gender and the status of a servant's employer. | | | What persisted in service over the whole of Meldrum's period, he argues, were a diverse set of relationships between servants and their employers, most powerfully experienced through and differentiated by household size and gender. |
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=156091029098573
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| | The Protection Project |
| | "The buying and selling of domestic labor is not simply an economic transaction governed by the market but a sociocultural relation between individuals, negotiated at may levels, including the everyday world of the household. | | | This means that domestic work as paid employment in the "informal sector" must be taken out of its currently private, individual realm and regulated publicly. | | | Lack of legal regulation can be attributed to (1) a neglect of the informal economic sector generally, (2) the view of the home and the labor of social reproduction as "private," even when paid, and (3) the lower status of non-citizens and women. |
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http://www.protectionproject.org/commentary/ele.htm
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| | Victorian London - Publications - Etiquette and Household Advice Manuals - Cassells Household Guide, New and Revised ... |
| | By failing to make the most of the stores entrusted to her care, or by disposing of articles of food for her own profit, what is indulgently termed "want of economy" becomes actual dishonesty, and tends considerably to impoverish the means of employers. | | | She is no sooner out of the house than some unexpected domestic crisis requires her services afresh. | | | Few charwomen and other domestic day-labourers are satisfied with sheer money payment. |
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http://www.victorianlondon.org/cassells/cassells-23.htm
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| | Domestic slavery |
| | Thought should therefore be given to amending the statutory time-limits. | | | The typical employer lives on the outskirts of a European city, and the presence of this child, who will do the housework and take care of the employer's own children will allow him, without spending money, to carry on a paid occupation. | | | The Assembly also recommends that the Committee of Ministers ask the relevant expert committee(s) to draw up a domestic workers’ charter of rights. |
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http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/doc01/EDOC9102.htm
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| | WWGW - America's Preeminent Immigration Law Firm |
| | The A-3, G-5, or NATO-7 servant is not required to obtain an EAD and may work immediately, as authorization to accept employment is incident to the alien's status. However, the alien may be employed only by the foreign government official, international organization representative, or NATO officer through whom such status was obtained. | | | On April 18, she finally receives her EAD and immediately applies for a Social Security number. By May 8, she has finally received her Social Security number and can apply for a driver's license, open a bank account, and be placed on the payroll of her employer. | | | Alice Domestic cannot take care of the child, cannot perform any other duties within the household, cannot apply for and obtain a Social Security number, 49 and consequently in most jurisdictions, would have trouble opening a bank account, applying for a driver's license, and registering for health insurance. |
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http://www.wwgw.com/content.asp?id=37
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| | Access, Voice and Loyalty. The Representation of Domestic Civil Servants in the EU Committees |
| | Nevertheless, most of the civil servants feel that representing Norway is of great importance when participating in EU committees, and some even want more governmental instructions and a better national follow-up concerning their activity on the EU committees. | | | Because much of the committee work is delegated to experts at lower administrative levels, there may arguably be a need for mechanisms to secure that civil servants actually act in accordance with the preferences of the government (Pitkin 1972:112; Pollack 1997). | | | The crucial point of this problem is the degree to which civil servants (agents) act on their own preferences, rather than on those of the government (principals). |
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http://www.arena.uio.no/publications/wp00_8.htm
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| | A modern day slave trade: Indonesian domestic servants in Malaysia |
| | Many opt for domestic work, as it requires no upfront fee and the women believe that they can save more money because they are provided with food and board. | | | In the wake of the scandal surrounding the treatment of Nirmala Bonat, Indonesia and Malaysia are now negotiating an agreement on domestic workers. | | | Contracts commonly stipulated that there should one day off a week, but even that could be waived if the employer paid for the extra day. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/migr-a16.shtml
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| | Job Openings for Domestic Servants |
| | The hired servants must agree to the Basic Work Law which may be summarized as, "Nothing coming from me, everything coming from Another." This means the employee can not expect to get much credit for the meritorious works which "Another" has done through him or her. | | | They will be given authority within the household of their fellow employees based on their faithful service-- not because of any inherent abilities, seminary degrees, or talent-based standards. | | | Some will become wealthy, other employees will live their whole lives on a modest income, or even spend their lives in jail or in ill-health and in constant pain. |
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http://www.ldolphin.org/news/newsletter-53.html
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| | The Bronx Slave Market: Change in Twentieth Century Household Help |
| | Nor was it included under the first social security legislation, passed in 1935, mostly because there were roughly equal numbers of workers and workplaces. | | | But it also has to do with legislation, politics, government and the economy. | | | Intentionally or not, Congress had created an opportunity for a replacement supply of household labor. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~aje4/jobtalk.html
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| | Professional Domestic Services & Institute known as pdspdi.com |
| | Professional Domestic Services and Institute also offers reference materials for household managers, maids, housecleaners, butlers, personal assistants, and other household staff working in private estates. | | | A domestic services staffing and training firm providing household managers, housestaff, nannies, chefs, maids, butlers and other professional household staff. | | | Welcome to www.pdspdi.com
We invite you to look at all the services Professional Domestic Services and Institute can provide to homes and families! |
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http://pdspdi.com
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| | Home Improvement » Domestic Servants |
| | The servant problem is one of the major issues discussed by home managers at any gathering. | | | We might manage somehow for a short period, but it is unthinkable to manage without help permanently. | | | Domestic help is more or less indispensable to the Indian home manager today. |
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http://home-improvement.footprints.in/56/domestic-servants
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| | Stepping Stones to Empowerment: Chinese Servants in the American West |
| | And he is usually so competent the employer is glad to submit to his management. | | | Others took advantage of their situation to learn business skills. | | | Many households required servants simply because the amount of work was too much for any one person. |
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http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/papers/stepping.htm
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| | 'Relinquishing and reclaiming independence: Irish domestic |
| | sisters, all of them domestic servants in the Boston area, would spend | | | guarantee that their Irish domestics appropriated their middle-class | | | America and her work in domestic service as a liberating experience. |
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http://www.soton.ac.uk/~pg2/HottenSomersEI01.htm
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| | Book Review Labour History, 83 The History Cooperative |
| | Higman has undertaken a thorough survey of the ways in which domestic service was recorded in State and Commonwealth censuses and thus has been able to graph the rise and fall in numbers and classifications, male and female, over 200 years. | | | This volume is offered as ‘a comprehensive survey of private domestic service’ in Australian history, but it concentrates on domestic service as it has been officially measured. | | | that the majority of domestic servants actually paid to live and work in Australian households were young women with no other opportunities for employment before marriage, that most of them were general servants, and that few households employed more than one girl. |
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http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lab/83/br_3.html
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| | Windows on Victoria - 200 Years of Victoria's History - Domestic Servants - Museum Victoria, Australia |
| | Now by these arrangements you will get an average of ten hours steady work every weekday out of a servant. | | | Domestic servants were widely criticised for asking too much — even though they were poorly paid and worked long hours. | | | If the size of the text in this page is too small, please either turn javascript on or adjust the default text size of your browser. |
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http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/windows/8hrs/domestic.asp
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| | Martin VanBuren National Historic Site (Lindenwald) - Kinderhook, NY |
| | The transition from the traditional employment of "help," the familiar neighbor girls of essentially the same cultural background as their employers, to the hiring of Irish Catholic "domestics" was the equivalent of the change in the public male workplace. | | | Domestic service presented a problem to nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans. | | | The problem with which all students of nineteenth-century domestic service must grapple is the relative documentary obscurity of the house servant. |
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http://www.nps.gov/mava/mvwestp.htm
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| | 03/21/02 - WSJ Edit Page: “Cheap Domestic Servants Worth Disease, Terrorism Risk.” |
| | They may already have done so, and the amnesty that Congress passed and the Journal supports will let them stay here indefinitely. | | | Protecting the safety and general welfare of the United States, you see, should be the paramount concern of the federal government—even if such protection causes an inconvenient shortage of domestic servants for Wall Street Journal editorial writers. | | | A couple of days late and a few corpses short, state and federal health officials last week announced the news that Americans are at risk from deadly diseases because of mass immigration. |
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http://www.vdare.com/francis/public_health.htm
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| | IMMIGRANT DOMESTIC SERVANTS PROTEST TREATMENT BY FOREIGN OFFICIALS STATIONED IN THE US |
| | Even as the institutions say they are implementing reforms, new cases of abuses are being reported. | | | While the World Bank and the IMF have made agreements to change their policies on domestic workers, they have not had the impact for which many had hoped. | | | Moreover, each institution refuses to allow independent monitoring or to allow social service groups to contact the domestic workers to inform them of their rights, so the extent of the problem is difficult to measure realistically. |
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http://www.visalaw.com/99oct/44oct99.html
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| | Table of Contents and Excerpt, Graham, House and Street |
| | Because the lives of servant women were so profoundly linked to the changes in urban life, dates that appropriately frame a history of the women also refer to a period of major reform that altered the city's physical and social landscape between 1860 and 1910. | | | In all this I seek to reveal the situations and extent to which servant women, as members of the working poor, could claim a measure of agency in the conduct of their own lives. | | | The power that required as justification the display of concern by masters was the same power that permitted and relied upon coercion. |
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http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exlauhop.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work |
| | The book is largely based on interviews with domestic workers, but the book also powerfully portrays the larger economic picture as domestic workers from developing countries increasingly come to perform the menial labor of the global economy. | | | Servants of Globalization is a poignant and often troubling study of migrant Filipina domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the mothering and caretaking work of the global economy in countries throughout the world. | | | This is often done at great cost to the relations with their own split-apart families. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804739226?v=glance
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| | Domestic Service, The "Mute and Forgotten" Occupation |
| | The hours worked in domestic service, unregulated by any legislation, were undoubtedly longer than in factory work. | | | It was calculated in 1873 that a house-maid's day extended from 6 A.M. until 10 P.M., during which she had two-and-a-half hours for meals and an hour-and-a-half in the afternoon for needlework, a total of four hours "rest." This meant twelve hours of actual work, longer by two hours than a factory woman's day. | | | Throughout the nineteenth century and until the First World War domestic service constituted the largest single employment for English women, and the second-largest employment for all English people, male and female. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/burnett3.html
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| | ILAB - Appendix C |
| | There have been reports of forced or bonded child labor in these industries/occupations. | | | This report was produced by the staff of the International Child Labor Program and is published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs. | | | Bakeries and confectionaries; carpentry; commercial sex workers; communications; domestic servants; hotels; porters; restaurants; small retail shops; street vendors; transport workers |
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http://www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/sweat5/appendixc.htm
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| | Male living-out domestic servants |
| | There are always a few servants in charge of taking care of the house, even when the main rooms are covered in dustsheets. | | | Some servants may have worked some days a week at one house, and other days at another. | | | If only the servants were there at the time a census was taken, I think it possible that whichever servant was in charge could be described as Head of the household. |
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http://www.rand-one.com/new-6695774-4428.html
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| | Pepys' Diary: Domestic servants |
| | If you can help me with this I would be most greatfull. | | | Top > Work and Education > Jobs and Professions > Domestic servants | | | I am looking for a complete list of victorian servants, (both domestic and garden) and what jobs they where expected to do. |
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http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/319.php
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| | Workers' Comp Atty-Law Offices |
| | Some of those statutes however, continue to exclude from the definition of employee part-time domestic servants as well as individual servants in a home rather than a staff of servants. | | | Finally, most statutes explicitly distinguish domestic from business workers to avoid confusion. | | | Many state workers’ compensation statutes reflect my professional opinion and do in fact treat some domestic servants as employees. |
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http://www.iadvocate.net/DomesticServant.htm
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| | Redundancy / domestic servants |
| | Domestic servants normally qualify for statutory redundancy pay in the same way as anyone else. | | | This does not apply to close relatives of the employer and there are special rules if the employer dies or moves to another house. | | | Use of this site is subject to terms and conditions. |
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http://www.emplaw.co.uk/free/4frame/data/076012.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Zita |
| | She was always circumspect, and only severe when there was a question of checking the introduction of vice among the servants. | | | On the other hand, if any of them had been guilty of shortcomings, she took upon herself to excuse or defend them to their employers. | | | By this meek and humble self-restraint she at last succeeded in overcoming the malice of her fellow-servants and her employers, so much so that she was placed in charge of all the affairs of the house. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15762a.htm
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| | Saudi Princess Charged with Forcing Women to Be Domestic Servants |
| | The princess led the women to believe that they would suffer "serious harm" if they didn't perform the work, according to a copy of an indictment charging her with forced labor, visa fraud and other charges. | | | Martin wouldn't discuss the whereabouts of Al Jader's domestic servants, who are identified only as "Tri" and "Ro" in court papers. | | | It wasn't immediately clear what relationship, if any, the couple has to the Saudi royal family. |
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http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/printer_033105WA.shtml
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| | Information about NZ for domestic servants - book cover |
| | Cover of Information about New Zealand for domestic servants issued by the High Commissioner for New Zealand. | | | Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image. | | | Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its 'Timeframes' website, |
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http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/brit-nz/domes-servs.htm
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