CHAPTER IX. The Social Disadvantages of Domestic Service

THE SOCIAL DISADVANTAGES OF DOMESTIC SERVICE

Lack of home life 151 Lack of social opportunities 152 Lack of intellectual opportunities 153 Badges of social inferiority 154 Use of word “servant” 155 The Christian name in address 156 The cap and apron 157 Acknowledgment of social inferiority 158 Giving of fees 158 Objections to feeing system 159 Excuses made for it 161 Other phases of social inferiority 162 Social inferiority overbalances industrial advantages of the occupation 163 Comparison of advantages and disadvantages of the occupation 165