%0 Journal Article %1 Steedman.2004 %A Steedman, Carolyn %D 2004 %J Social History %K -1800 1800-1871 Arbeit Dienstboten Europa %N 1 %P 1-29 %T The servant's labour: the business of life, England, 1760-1820 %V 29 %X Taxation of domestic servants' labour was inaugurated under Act of Parliament in 1777. A pragmatic measure, designed to increase revenue to fund a war economy, it established right of appeal to the higher courts, and local commissioners and employers to seek the opinion of the judges as to whether or not a man or woman was truly a domestic servant and a master or mistress liable to the tax. These records are used here to discuss the kind of work performed by domestic servants, and the place of domestic service in a developing labour theory of value, throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. The largest occupational category in later eighteenth-century society may thus be inserted into a history of working-class formation in England and the interaction of two bodies of law (Poor Law and taxation law) in the making of a modern class society discussed. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR Copyright of Social History is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multip

@article{Steedman.2004, abstract = {Taxation of domestic servants' labour was inaugurated under Act of Parliament in 1777. A pragmatic measure, designed to increase revenue to fund a war economy, it established right of appeal to the higher courts, and local commissioners and employers to seek the opinion of the judges as to whether or not a man or woman was truly a domestic servant and a master or mistress liable to the tax. These records are used here to discuss the kind of work performed by domestic servants, and the place of domestic service in a developing labour theory of value, throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. The largest occupational category in later eighteenth-century society may thus be inserted into a history of working-class formation in England and the interaction of two bodies of law (Poor Law and taxation law) in the making of a modern class society discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Social History is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multip}, added-at = {2009-02-04T14:35:54.000+0100}, author = {Steedman, Carolyn}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e71c6f2e66dd5f05a56c329c173540c2/gottfriedv}, interhash = {97e4f8249886d68e53950f6b2fb971d4}, intrahash = {e71c6f2e66dd5f05a56c329c173540c2}, issn = {03071022}, journal = {Social History}, keywords = {-1800 1800-1871 Arbeit Dienstboten Europa}, number = 1, pages = {1-29}, timestamp = {2009-05-06T22:28:17.000+0200}, title = {The servant's labour: the business of life, England, 1760-1820}, volume = 29, year = 2004 }