Female relatives and domestic service in nineteenth‐century England and Wales: Female kin servants revisited
利用1851年人口普查完整样本，重新分析英国人口普查中女性亲属仆人的记录，发现其涵盖日工、亲属家内务和家庭企业工作三种情况，修正后显示家政服务雇佣女性可能超过所有制造业总和，说明工业化对女性工作影响有限。
Abstract This article uses the full sample of the 1851 census enumerators’ books (CEBs) to revisit and reanalyse the well‐known phenomenon of female kin servants in the British census. We find that the recording of female kin servants points to three distinct possibilities – day servants, domestic work at relatives’ homes, and work at relatives’ homes as part of the family business unit. Accordingly, we argue that female kin servants offer a rare opportunity to look into the interaction between gendered work, household economy, and market economy, and they should be considered as much in the labour force as classic servants. We further offer tentative methods to revise the number of female domestic servants. Our revision suggests that domestic service probably employed more women than manufacturing activities of all sorts put together. It highlights the limited impacts of industrialization on most women's work experiences as well as traditional sector's importance for women's employment, even as late as the mid‐nineteenth century.