Mistress and Servant in Nineteenth Century Hamburg
Employer/Employee Relationships in Domestic Service, 1880-1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katharina Schlegel (0000-0001-8226-4760, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-77 |
| Publication date | 1983-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/15.1.60 |
| OpenAlex | W4252265283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
One day in the early months of 1888 Doris Viersbeck arrived in Hamburg for the first time. She was twenty years old and had come from Holstein to find a job as a domestic servant with a respectable Hamburg family. Her chances of success seemed good. She already had over two years' experience with a teacher's family, and she was fortunate enough to have the advice of an aunt who, before getting married, had herself become thoroughly acquainted with the tricks and traps of service. On her aunt's advice an advertisement was published in one of the leading
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2020 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |