Remedies, possible, must have historical and economic basis, 193, 194;
general principles, 194-203;
must be in line with industrial tendencies, 194;
cannot be immediate in effect, 199;
creation of social opportunities, 206, 207;
abolition of term “servant,” 207, 208;
disuse or less free use of Christian name, 209;
reasonable regulations for wearing cap and apron, 210;
relinquishment of demand for servility of manner, 210;
abolition of fees, 210;
specialization of household employments, 212-234;
measures must conform to principles of division of labor and
unconscious co-operation, 212;
practice of putting work out of the house, 213-234, 267, 268;
removing worker from the house, 213-234, 267, 268;
education in household affairs, 251-262;
improvement must be an evolution, 273.
See also Industrial tendencies, Profit sharing.
Rents, possible lessening of, through removal of necessity for
laundries in individual homes, 223.
Rhode Island, colonial laws concerning those who harbored runaways,
43;
for corporal punishment of servants, 45.
Richards, Mrs. Ellen S., and Talbot, Marion, _Household Sanitation_,
261, n.
“The Roby,” 191.
Rochdale Pioneers, 187.
Rowe, C. J., on domestic service in Australia, 128, n.
Runaways, legal punishment of, 41;
legal punishment of those harboring, 42, 43;
legal rewards for capturing, 44.
Salomon, G., on domestic service in France, 288, n., 289, n., 291,
n., 292, n., 293, n., 296, n.
Sanitation, household, 261, n.
Savings of domestic employees, 103.
Schloss, D. F., on profit sharing, 237-239.
Schouler, James, on relation of master and servant, 138.
Seamstresses, average wages of, statistics, 89, 94-97.
Second girl, average wages of, statistics, 89, 94-97.
“Servant,” as an appellation, 57, 58, 69-72, 155, 208;
history of its use in America, 69-71;
term offensive to American employees, 72;
not demeaning in itself, 155;
may be applied to any one, 155;
ordinary usage restricted to one who does housework for wages, 155;
protests against the term, 155, n.;
as used at present will continue to be a mark of social
degradation, 155, 156;
should be abolished, 207.
“Servant Reform Association,” 179, 180.
Service books, see German service books.
Servility of manner, absence of, at the North, in early colonial
period, 61;
required of domestics, 158;
an anomaly in a democratic country, 210.
Sewall, Judge, description by, of funeral of his negro servant, 27,
n.;
protest of, against negro slavery, 52, n.
Sewing women of New York City, 199, n.
Slavery, abolition of, opened competition in domestic service between
negroes and foreign born, 65;
abolition of, assisted in making labor mobile, 67.
Smyth, J. F. D., on use of term “servant,” 70, n.
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