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Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

Gelesen von Jim Locke

This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (Summary by the author) (2 hr 22 min)

Chapters

Introduction

6:36

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Enumeration of Negro Domestic Servants

8:32

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Sources of the Supply and Methods of Hiring

9:23

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Grades of Services and Wages

21:15

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Savings and Expenditure

14:43

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Amusements and Recreations

22:22

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Length and Quality of Domestic Service

26:21

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Conjugal Condition, Illiteracy, and Health of Negro Domestics

9:26

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Ideals of Betterment

24:07

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