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• Private household workers : data pertinent to an evaluation of the feasibility of extending minimum wage and overtime coverage under the Fair labor standards act submitted to Congress 1974 (U. S. Dept. of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, 1974), by Kerry Helmeke and United States. Employment Standards Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Domestic service employees : a study of the economic effects of the provisions of the Fair labor standards act submitted to Congress 1979 (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, 1979), by United States. Employment Standards Administration, Kerry Helmeke, and Margaret J. Sherrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vivis resa ... (Wahlström & Widstrand, 1923), by Vivi Täckholm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of a consultation on the status of household employment. (U.S. Women's Bureau, 1968), by United States Women's Bureau, National Committee on Household Employment, and University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women in domestic work : yesterday and today. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1981), by Allyson Sherman Grossman and United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household employment, a digest of current information. ([Washington], 1946), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old age insurance for household workers. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1947), by Mary Viola Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Community household employment programs (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1948), by Ethel Josephine Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swedish-American book of cookery and adviser for Swedish servants in America. Second revised edition (New York : Otto Chils' Boktryckeri, 1888., 1888), by Carl Grimsköld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preliminary job descriptions for the domestic & personal service industry. ([publisher not identified], 1937), by United States Employment Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Dienstbotenproblem in den nordamerikanischen Staaten ; und was es uns lehrt (G. Fischer, 1908), by Else Kesten-Conrad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Household employment training; a suggested program development guide for administrators (U.S. Office of Education, Division of Manpower Development and Training; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off], 1971), by Carole A Jamison, National Committee on Household Employment, and United States. Office of Education. Division of Manpower Development and Training (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home economics education (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of Education, Vocational Division, 1937), by Rua Van Horn, Anna Lalor Burdick, and United States. Division of Vocational Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private household workers ([Washington, 1974), by United States. Employment Standards Administration, Margaret Sherrill, and Kerry Helmeke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The House Servant's Directory (Boston: Munroe and Francis; New York: C. S. Francis, 1827), by Robert Roberts (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945 (originally published 1989; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Phyllis M. Palmer, contrib. by Vanessa H. May (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• First annual report of the Society for the Encouragement of Faithful Domestic Servants in New-York. (Printed by D. Fanshaw, at the American Tract Society's House, 1826), by Society for the Encouragement of Faithful Domestic Servants of New York (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wanted: A Chaperon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1902), by Paul Leicester Ford, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy and Margaret Armstrong (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wanted : a chaperon (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902), by Paul Leicester Ford, Margaret Armstrong, Howard Chandler Christy, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Social security <1996-> (Social Security Administration, in the 1990s), by United States Social Security Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• The servant question (Hampton, Va. : Press of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1911., 1911), by Virginia Church, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Press, and Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A lifetime with Mark Twain; the memories of Katy Leary, for thirty years his faithful and devoted servant. (Harcourt,Brace, 1925), by Mary Lawton and Katy Leary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bessy Conway: or, The Irish Girl in America (New York: D. and J. Sadlier, 1861), by Mrs. J. Sadlier (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Bessy Conway: or, The Irish Girl in America (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. J. Sadlier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, by Harriet E. Wilson (Gutenberg text)

• Mammy's white folks (Grosset & Dunlap, 1919), by Emma Speed Sampson and Irwin Myers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Are You Interested in the Servant Question? (New Haven, CT: Printed at the United Workers Boys' Club, 1917), by Civic Federation of New Haven (page images at Harvard)

• Domestic service. ([Louisville, 1937), by United States. National Youth Administration. Kentucky (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aunt Emmerline and others of her kindly kind (Saunders, 1944), by Mabel Shands Saunders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• White servitude in Pennsylvania; indentured and redemption labor in colony and commonwealth. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Cheesman Abiah Herrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• White servitude in Pennsylvania indentured and redemption labor in colony and commonwealth (J.J. McVey, 1926), by Cheesman Abiah Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study; Together With a Special Report on Negro Domestic Service (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1899), by W. E. B. Du Bois, contrib. by Isabel Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household employment in Philadelphia (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1932., 1932), by Amey Brown Eaton Watson, United States Government Printing Office, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philadelphia Negro : a social study (Published for the University, 1899), by W. E. B. Du Bois and Isabel Eaton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sketches of old Virginia family servants. (Printed by I. Ashmead, 1847), by Anne Rose Page (page images at HathiTrust)

• Household employment in Seattle. ([Seattle?], 1937), by King County (Wash.). Advisory Committee on Social Security and King County (Wash.). Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Social security taxes for domestic workers : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on S. 1231, July 21, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ensuring regulations protect access to affordable and quality companion care : hearing before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, March 20, 2012. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2012), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections (page images at HathiTrust)
• Redefining companion care : jeopardizing access to affordable care for seniors and individuals with disabilities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, November 20, 2013. ([publisher not identified], 2014), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Law 94-566, Oct. 20, 1976 : an act to require States to extend unemployment compensation coverage to certain previously uncovered workers, to increase the amount of the wages subject to the Federal unemployment tax, to increase the rate of such tax, and for other purposes. (for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

• Social security taxes for domestic workers : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on S. 1231, July 21, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposals to simplify and streamline the payment of employment taxes for domestic workers : hearing before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, March 4, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household employer's social security tax guide. ([publisher not identified]), by United States Internal Revenue Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household employer's social security tax guide. New tax rates in effect January 1, 1960 ... ([Washington, 1959), by United States Internal Revenue Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Private household workers : data pertinent to an evaluation of the feasibility of extending minimum wage and overtime coverage under the Fair labor standards act submitted to Congress 1974 (U. S. Dept. of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, 1974), by Kerry Helmeke and United States. Employment Standards Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Domestic service employees : a study of the economic effects of the provisions of the Fair labor standards act submitted to Congress 1979 (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, 1979), by United States. Employment Standards Administration, Kerry Helmeke, and Margaret J. Sherrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposals to simplify and streamline the payment of employment taxes for domestic workers : hearing before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, March 4, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• How the Fair labor standards act applies to domestic service workers (The Division, 1990), by United States. Employment Standards Administration. Wage and Hour Division (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Plain Talk and Friendly Advice to Domestics, With Counsel on Home Matters (page images at MOA)
• Millionaire Households and Their Domestic Economy; With Hints Upon Fine Living (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1903), by Mary Elizabeth Carter, illust. by Margaret Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro Christianized: An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of Negro-Servants in Christianity (1706), by Cotton Mather, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• Servingman's comfort. (by W. W., 1598), by active 1598 I. M. and Gervase Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• House and home : a complete housewife's guide (J. H. Moore & co., 1889), by Marion Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917), by M. S. and An old servant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (The Macmillan company, London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1897), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Job descriptions for domestic service and personal service occupations. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1941), by United States Employment Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (The Macmillan company;, 1901), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bealby : a holiday (New York : The Macmillan Company, 1915., 1915), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanted, a young woman to do housework : business principles applied to housework (Moffat, Yard & Co., 1915), by C. Hélène Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A statistical inquiry concerning domestic service. ([Boston, 1892), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain talk and friendly advice to domestics with counsel on home matters. (Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Fifteenth-century courtesy book (Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. [etc.], 1914), by Walter W. Seton, R. W. Chambers, Poor Clares, and Third Order Regular of St. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A community home assistants experiment (Smith college, 1928), by Esther H. Stocks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic workers and their employment relations : a study based on the records of the Domestic Efficiency Association of Baltimore, Maryland (Govt. Print. Off., 1924), by Mary V. Robinson, Domestic Efficiency Association of Baltimore, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household employment in Philadelphia (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1932., 1932), by Amey Brown Eaton Watson, United States Government Printing Office, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standards of placement agencies for household employees (Govt. Print. Off., 1934), by Marie Correll and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopaedia of etiquette : what to write, what to do, what to wear, what to say : a book of manners for everyday use. (Published for N. Doubleday by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922), by Emily Holt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young housekeeper (House Beautiful Pub. Co., 1918), by Jane Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household engineering : scientific management in the home (American School of Home Economics, 1920), by Christine Frederick and American School of Home Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical housekeeper (Henry Bill Pub. Co., 1872), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The servant girl question. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1881), by Harriet Elizabeth Spofford and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expert maid-servant (Harper & brothers, 1904), by Christine Terhune Herrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The expert waitress; a manual for the pantry, kitchen, and dining room (Harper & brothers, 1911), by Anne Frances Springsteed Cole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Concerns of household workers; program with household workers in the Y. W. C. A. (Womans Press, 1941), by Jean Collier Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toilers of the home; the record of a college woman's experience as a domestic servant (Doubleday, Page & company, 1903), by Lillian Pettengill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The how and why of home etiquette (Lowman & Hanford, 1934), by Josephine Perry Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to persons who are engaged in domestic service. (Leavitt & Trow, 1842), by Catharine Esther Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Footman's directory, and butler's remembrancer (Printed for the author; and sold by J. Hatchard and Son, 187 Piccadilly, 1823), by Thomas Cosnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete servant : being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants ... with useful receipts and tables (Knightand Lacey, 1825), by Samuel Adams and Sarah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simple directions for the waitress or parlor maid (Longmans, Green and co., 1917), by Caroline Reed Wadhams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kind words for the kitchen; or, Illustrations of humble life. (M.W. Dodd, 1845), by Esther Copley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katechismus der gutgeschulten Dienerschaft des Vornehmen und des bürgerlichen Hauses ... (Stahl, in the 1910s), by Irene de Nalec̆z (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the Plague of London : together with, Religious courtship (Derby & Jackson, 1857), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The footman: his duties, and how to perform them. (Houlston, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women in the house; stories of household employment (The Womans press, 1938), by Ruth Sergel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training for household service occupations in the American home ... (New York city, 1936), by Helen Livingstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vogue's manual of smart service and table setting. (The Condé Nast publications, inc., 1930), by Vogue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service. ([Louisville, Ky.], 1936), by Kentucky United States. National youth administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Fifteenth-century courtesy book (Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1914), by Walter W. Seton, R. W. Chambers, Poor Clares, and Third Order Regular of St. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our twenty helps and why we parted (Philadelphia, 1881), by Glorvina Fort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice to a young woman at service : in a letter from a friend (Printed for the trustees of the publishing fund, 1823), by Sarah Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The road to trained service in the household. (National board of the Young women's Christian associations, 1916), by Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board. Commission on Household Employment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain talk and friendly advice to domestics, with counsel on home matters. (Phillips, Sampson and company, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directions to servants (London : Printed for J. Nunn, No. 48, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1798., 1798), by Jonathan Swift and James Nunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comfort and cleanliness : the servant and mistress question (Longmans, Green and Co., 1898), by Catherine M. Buckton and Mass.) Simmons College (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serving and waiting : modern methods of table preparation (F. A. Stokes company, 1905), by Eleanor Marchant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Religious courtship: being historical discourses on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only ... (Printed by Robert and Thomas Duncan, 1774), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (The Macmillan company ;, 1911), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Domestic guide (Lockwood, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The management of servants : a practical guide to the routine of domestic service (Frederick Warne and Co., 1880), by A Member of the Aristocracy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new system of domestic cookery : formed upon principles of economy and adapted to the use of private families (Printed by S. Hamilton for J. Murray, 1813), by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new system of domestic cookery : formed upon principles of economy and adapted to the use of private families (J. Murray, 1823), by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buckeye cookery : with hints on practical housekeeping. (Buckeye Pub. Co., 1885), by Estelle Woods Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice of Onesimus to his young friends (Pryor Publications, 2000), by Thomas Cosnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical housekeeping : a careful compilation of tried and approved recipes. (Buckeye Pub. Co., 1883), by Estelle Woods Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious courtship being historical discourses on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only, as also of husbands and wives being of the same opinions in religion with one another : with an appendix showing the necessity of taking none but religious servants and a proposal for the better managing of servants (W. Milner, 1840), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (Macmillan, 1901), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Industrial commission on the relations and conditions of capital and labor employed in manufactures and general business ... : including testimony ... with review and digest thereof, and a special report on domestic service (Govt. Print. Off., 1901), by United States. Industrial Commission and Gail Laughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expert waitress; a manual for the pantry and dining room (Harper & brothers, 1912), by Anne Frances Springsteed Cole, C. S. D., and C. S. D. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Simple directions for the laundress (Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Caroline Reed Wadhams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simple directions for the chambermaid (Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Caroline Reed Wadhams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subcommittee hearing on H.R. 2737, to authorize the reimbursement of certain naval attaches, observers, and other officers for certain expenses incurred while on authorized missions in foreign countries ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1951), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 2 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Full committee hearing on H.R. 662, H.R. 1199, H.R. 1200, H.R. 1201, H.R. 1203, H.R. 2736, H.R. 2737, H.R. 1179, H.R. 2735, H.R. 1181, H.R. 1215, H.R. 1216, S. 927, H.R. 3911 ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1951), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household management. (Macmillan, 1902), by Lida Seely, James B. Herndon, and Herndon/Vehling Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les domestiques; étude de moeurs et d'histoire. (Baillière, 1875), by Edmond Des Robert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The servants practical guide. a handbook of duties and rules. (F. Warne and co., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• House and home : a complete housewife's guide (P. W. Ziegler, 1889), by Marion Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household workers ([Science Research Associates, 1940), by Jean Collier Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women private household workers : a statistical and legislative profile (Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau, 1978), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maître d'hôtel (Chez Pierre David, sur le Quay & proche la porte des Augustins du grand Conuent, au Roy Dauid, 1659), by Pierre David and Pierre de Lune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home economics education (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of Education, Vocational Division, 1937), by Rua Van Horn, Anna Lalor Burdick, and United States. Division of Vocational Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin... (city, National board of the Young women's Christian associations, 1900), by Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board. Commission on Household Employment (page images at HathiTrust)
• The management of servants : a practical guide to the routine of domestic service : containing the method of waiting on table and other duties applicable to every household (Frederick Warne and Co., 1890), by A Member of the Aristocracy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables, by Samuel Adams and Sarah Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters to a Young Housekeeper, by Jane Prince (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Greatest Plague of Life: or, the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant., by Augustus Mayhew and Henry Mayhew, illust. by George Cruikshank (Gutenberg ebook)
• Common Sense for Housemaids, by Ann Fraser Tytler (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters to Persons Who Are Engaged in Domestic Service, by Catharine Esther Beecher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Suburban Residences, and How to Circumvent Them, by J. E. Panton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Between the Larch-woods and the Weir, by Flora Klickmann (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Flower-Patch Among the Hills, by Flora Klickmann (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Expert Maid-Servant, by Christine Terhune Herrick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business principles applied to housework, by C. Hélène Barker (Gutenberg ebook)

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