The Servant Problem  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8764 (Dec. 2011), page 67-70.
Topik: European History; Supply & Demand; Social Life & Customs; Domestic Service; International
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go, and as cooks go, she went. Saki's epigram, from Reginald on Besetting Sins, has lasted well, but when it was published in 1904, readers would have felt not just its wit but its bite. This was the era of Britain's Servant Problem: middle-class dinner parties buzzed not with school admissions and house prices but with the shortage of decent help, and its tendency to stalk off at the slightest provocation. Gaping income inequalities; limited education for the masses; a long tradition of domestic service: Brazil at the turn of the 21st century bore striking similarities to 1880s Britain. But in the past decade Brazil's professional classes have burgeoned and a lower-middle class--25m new consumers--has sprung into being. As a result, many maids from the north-east who migrated in past decades to the richer southern cities are downing dusters and heading home. The servant problem is raging in Brazil.

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