Posted on Tuesday, 21 February 2012

In fact, some domestics criticized live-in servants over their unspecified assignments and postponed completion of tasks. Anxious to finish their work so that they could go home, daily workers felt a disdainful superiority because live-ins were not given well-defined, specific assignments.
Living In, Living Out by Elizabeth Clark-Lewis (page 158)

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