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