Domestic Service in the Soviet Union

Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvAlissa Klots,Alissa (University of Pittsburgh) Klots

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This innovative study is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union, set against the background of changing discourses on women, labour, and socialist living. Even though domestic service conflicted with the Bolsheviks' egalitarian message, the regime embraced paid domestic labor as a temporary solution to the problem of housework. Analyzing sources ranging from court cases to oral interviews, Alissa Klots demonstrates how the regime both facilitated and thwarted domestic workers' efforts to reinvent themselves as equal members of Soviet society. Here, a desire to make maids and nannies equal participants in the building of socialism clashed with a gendered ideology where housework was women's work. This book serves not only as a window into class and gender inequality under socialism, but as a vantage point to examine the power of state initiatives to improve the lives of household workers in the modern world.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-02
Mått160 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt598 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Studies in European History
Antal sidor318
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009467209

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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.