The ability to employ the labor of another was a crucial class badge. In 1851, in York, 60 percent of "small shopkeepers, lower professionals, farmers, etc." employed at least one servant, compared to 10 percent of skilled and virtually no semiskilled or unskilled workers (Armstrong 1966: 234, 272-3). My grandmother's accounts for 1901 reveal the nonworking wife of a man with a small gardening business paying "2s 6d" weekly wages (about the price of a chicken) to a girl who slept in the kitchen. (查看原文)
Preface to the new edition 范围上与其他三卷不同（Unlike them, it is not global.… Here I am resolutely focused from beginning to end on Europe and America. vii）19世纪欧洲及其白人定居者殖民地构成了构成了世界权力的 "前沿"，这也是世界历史上第一个由一个地区文...
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