Recommendations of domestic employees unsatisfactory, 114, 115. Redemptioners, 19-49; term of service, 19; probably outnumbered transported convicts, 20; more in Southern and Middle colonies than in New England, 20; of English, German, and Irish birth, 20; not always from lower classes, 21; methods by which they were obtained and transported, 22; “spirited away,” 22, n.; form of indenture, 22, 23, n.; easy life of some described by Alsop, 25; unenviable condition of majority, 25-28; wages of, 28-31; high in New England, 28; generally low, 28; poor quality of their service, 31-36; colonial laws concerning their relation to masters, 38-48; legal protection, 38-40; legal precaution against their escape, 40, 41; legal punishment for harboring any who escaped, 41, 42; legal reward for their capture when escaped, 43, 44; laws to prevent their escape, 44; discomforts and hard treatment, 44; laws for corporal punishment, 45; laws to prevent barter with, 45, 46; restricted by minute and oppressive laws, 47; laws to prevent their being set free, 47, 48; a few rose to high social position, 48; supplanted by free laborers at the North, 54; supplanted by negro slaves at the South, 54. See also Colonial laws, Indenture, names of colonies. Remedies, doubtful, 167-193; many proposed, 167; why ineffective, 167; application of golden rule inadequate, 169; application of intelligence not sufficient, 170; receiving employee into family unsatisfactory, 170-172; bringing negroes to the North, of doubtful benefit, 172-175; importation of Chinese domestics would tend to drive out European domestics, 176, 177; licenses, not applicable, 177, 178; German service books, not feasible, 178; abolition of higher grades of public schools, 179; introduction of housework into public schools, 179; “Servant Reform Association,” 179, 180; training schools do not promise success, undemocratic, 180-186; co-operative housekeeping, 186-193; causes of its failure, 193. See also Co-operative housekeeping, Training schools.