Property News · December 28, 2016

The servantless house: human labour v mechanical: archive, 28 December 1921


28 December 1921: Mechanical appliances and other labour savers can be procured to lighten considerably the tasks of housewiferyThe general idea that labour-saving machinery is too expensive to be installed in ordinary houses calls for an investigation of the cost of running a house with and without a servant. There are, broadly speaking, two classes of people without servants to-day – those who cannot afford to keep one on account of the present high wages and cost of living, and those who, while not well off in the common sense of the term, have enough money to keep at least one maid but who prefer not to do so. Whatever the cause, the servantless housewife is faced with the same problem of getting the work done as best she can. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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