Alissa Klots (University of Pittsburgh)

Domestic Service in the Soviet Union

Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative study is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union. Bringing together gender and labor history, Alissa Klots demonstrates how the Bolshevik regime both facilitated and thwarted domestic workers' efforts to participate in public life and reinvent themselves as equal members of society.

Produktdetails

• New Studies in European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781009467209
• ISBN-10: 1009467204
• Artikelnr.: 69825478

Autorenporträt

Alissa Klots is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in Soviet history, focusing on issues of gender, labor, and aging. Her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Dan David Foundation, and the Humboldt Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a kitchen maid to rule the state; Prologue: domestic service
and the Bolsheviks before 1917; Part I. Servants into Workers, 1920s:
1. From exploitation to socially useful labor: the early soviet discourse
on domestic service; 2. Just like any other worker? Class, gender, and
labor rights; 3. Kitchen maids in the school of communism: union work and
political mobilization; 4. The new soviet domestic worker: the
enlightenment campaign and domestic workers' subjectivity; Part II. In The
Land of Victorious Socialism, 1930-1950s: 5. The turn to production:
domestic workers and the first five-year plan; 6. Serving in a socialist
home: paid domestic labor and etatization of the home; 7. Like one of the
family: domestic service as a site of intimate negotiations; 8. The
meanings of privilege: domestic workers in postwar society; Conclusion;
Bibliography.