"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"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
