Chapter IV: Domestic Service Since the Colonial Period

Second period in history of domestic service 54
Substitution for redemptioners of American “help” 54
Democratic condition of service 55
Observations of European travellers 55
Characteristics of the period 61
Third period in the history of domestic service 62
The Irish famine of 1846 62
The German revolution of 1848 63
Opening of treaty relations with China in 1844 64
Abolition of slavery in 1863 65
Effect of these movements on domestic service 65
Development of material resources 66
Effect of this on domestic service 67
Immobility of labor of women 68
Change in service indicated by history of the word “servant” 69
Early meaning of the word “servant” 69
Use of word “help” 70
Reintroduction of word “servant” 71
Impossibility of restoring previous conditions of service 72