Help for housewives: Domestic service and the reconstruction of domesticity in Britain, 1940-50

Women's History Review

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 299-324

  Giles, Judy ^a  

^a YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0344081062     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612020100200282     Document Type: Article

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42. The Listener, p. 464
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