Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Domestic service in the nineteenth century
  • chapter 2. Methodological approach
  • chapter 3. Rochdale in the nineteenth century
  • chapter 4. The social position of the 'servant' in the mid-nineteenth century census
  • chapter 5. The 'true' servant population of Rochdale, 1851-1871
  • chapter 6. Servant employers in Rochdale and the factors affecting their employment of servants
  • chapter 7. Domestic service and the rural woman
  • chapter 8. The effect of location on servant employment
  • chapter 9. The recruitment of servants in Rochdale, 1851-1871
  • chapter 10. Domestic service in nineteenth-century Rochdale : some implications for contemporary historical research