Economic tendencies, see Industrial tendencies.
Education, views of effect of, on domestic service, 179.
Education in household affairs, 251-262.
Electricity in the household, 9, 232.
“Employer,” use of, for “master” and “mistress,” 207.
Employers, their personal point of view, 4;
difficulties of, 107-129;
assimilation into household of foreign and ignorant employees, 109;
restlessness of domestic employees, 109-112;
ignorance of domestic employees, 112, 113;
the choice of a domestic a lottery, 114-117;
general disregard among employers of economic principles, 117-122;
individual irresponsibility of employers, 121, 122;
difficulties of, increasing, 125, n.;
fewer under certain conditions, 126;
difficulties also in England, Germany, and France, 127;
due to a defective and antiquated system, 129;
individual standpoint of many employers, 170;
each responsible to all, 266.
See also Housekeepers.
Employment Bureau, unsatisfactory, 115-117;
application of profit sharing to, 244.
Employments of men and women need readjustment, 270-272.
England, domestic service in, unsatisfactory, 127, 128.
English custom of using surname for domestics, 157.
English in the United States, number of, 78;
in domestic service, number of, 79.
Ethics of domestic service given too exclusive attention, 167.
Evans, Elizabeth, wages of, 28.
Extravagance of domestics checked through system of profit sharing,
241, 242.
Extravagant habits acquired in domestic service, 150.
Factory system, substituted for the domestic system, 8-15;
agencies which brought about, 8;
released labor from the home, 10;
changed personnel of domestic service, 11;
diverted labor into other channels, 11, 12;
made some labor idle, 12;
produced social prejudice against labor of women for remuneration,
12, 14;
mobility of labor introduced by, 67.
Faithful, Emily, on domestic service in England, 128, n.
Family, average, 107.
Family life marred by introduction of domestics, 171, 172.
Fancy work, as result of idle labor, 12;
George Eliot on, 12, n.;
“intellectual fancy work,” 13.
Feeing, 158-162;
effects of, 159;
humiliates giver and receiver, 159;
creates eye service, 159;
degrades and demoralizes, 159;
excuses offered for, 161, 162;
feeing of a few, brands all domestics as a class, 162, 245;
abolition of feeing, 210;
abolished through adoption of profit sharing, 244, 245.
Fees, offered to no other class of workers, 159;
undemocratic, 159;
brand the recipient socially, 160;
are bribes, 160;
objectionable manner of giving, 160, 161;
given to eke out wages of underpaid employees, 161;
same principle not practised in regard to other underpaid
employments, 161;
established customs in regard to them in Europe, 290-291.
Feudge, F. R., Chinese cook quoted by, 148, n.
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