The servant's labour

The business of life, England, 1760-1820

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11933570
AutoresCarolyn Steedman (0000-0001-8175-1161, University of Warwick, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen29
Número1
Páginas1-29
Fecha de publicación2004-01-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0307-1022 • E-ISSN: 1470-1200
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0307102032000163723
OpenAlexW2034404115
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas13

Taxation of domestic servants' labour was inaugurated under Act of Parliament in 1777. A pragmatic measure, designed to increase revenue to fund a war economy, it established right of appeal to the higher courts, and local commissioners and employers to seek the opinion of the judges as to whether or not a man or woman was truly a domestic servant and a master or mistress liable to the tax. These records are used here to discuss the kind of work performed by domestic servants, and the place of domestic service in a developing labour theory of value, throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. The largest occupational category in later eighteenth-century society may thus be inserted into a history of working-class formation in England and the interaction of two bodies of law (Poor Law and taxation law) in the making of a modern class society discussed

Appeal · Economics · Labour law · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Revenue · Servant · Sociology · Working class · European Political History Analysis · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Accounting