xvi, 358 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents
Includes bibliography
Summary
"This ground-breaking work is the first comprehensive account of the lives of domestic servants in Australia. It shows the significance of domestic service for Australia's society and economy from 1788 to the present day....Domestic service was more common in Australia than in England until about 1860, and more common than in the United States until 1940. Why was this so?....Why was coercion used to recruit servants - convicts, Aboriginal Australians, Pacific Islanders, children - and why were servants at the centre of so many immigration schemes down to the 1960s, but not beyond.".- Dust jacket