Chapter VI: Difficulties in Domestic Service From the Standpoint of the Employer

Conditions of the average family 107
Difficulties in domestic service 108
Prevalence of foreign born employees 108
Restlessness among employees 109
Employment in skilled labor of unskilled laborers 112
Difficulty in changing employees 114
Recommendations of employers 114
The employment bureau 115
Indifference of employers to economic law 117
Illustrations of this indifference 117
Difference between the employers of domestic labor and other
employers 121
Difficulties considered are not personal 122
Difficulties not decreasing 125
Difficulties not confined to America 127
The question in England 127
Condition of service in Germany 128
Service in France 129
Summary of difficulties 129

CHAPTER VII

ADVANTAGES IN DOMESTIC SERVICE

Personnel in domestic service 130
Reasons why women enter domestic service 131
High wages 131
Occupation healthful 132
It gives externals of home life 133
Special home privileges 133
Free time during the week 134
Annual vacations 135
Knowledge of household affairs 137
Congenial employment 137
Legal protection 138
Summary of advantages 138

CHAPTER VIII

THE INDUSTRIAL DISADVANTAGES OF DOMESTIC SERVICE

Reasons why women do not choose domestic service 140
No opportunity for promotion 141
Work in itself not difficult 142
“Housework is never done” 142
Lack of organization 143
Irregularity of working hours 143
Work required evenings and Sundays 146
Competition with the foreign born and negroes 146
Lack of independence 147
Summary of industrial disadvantages 149