Domestic Servants and Households in Rochdale

Edward Higgs

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Domestic Service in the Nineteenth Century 2. Methodological Approach 3. Rochdale in the Nineteenth Century 4. The Social Position of the ‘Servant’ in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Census 5. The ‘True’ Servant Population of Rochdale, 1851-1871 6. Servant Employers in Rochdale and the Factors Affecting Their Employment of Servants 7. Domestic Service and the Rural Woman 8. The Effect of Location on Servant Employment 9. The Recruitment of Servants in Rochdale, 1851-1871 10. Domestic Service in Nineteenth-Century Rochdale: Some Implications for Contemporary Historical Research; Appendix A: Coding Conventions Used in the Transformation of Sample Schedules into Numerical Data; Bibliography; Notes; Tables