Be modern, be ‘civil’ to domestic servants March 7, 2010, 5:59 AM IST MJ Akbar in The Siege Within , India , TOI Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email ...

According to Malaysian officials, 240,000 women are working as domestic servants in the country and over 90 percent are Indonesian. ... It is a modern-day equivalent of the slave trade, ...

Domestic servant abuse extends beyond the novel, ... Milly go out in a tornado to use the outside bathroom, was shocking the reality for modern day domestic help around the world is much worse.

Child servants are modern slaves. Staff Writer. ... children for domestic labor in the U.S. is an extension ... estimated 10,000 forced laborers in the U.S. are servants trapped behind the ...

Affluent liberals' purported compassion bears a striking resemblance to self-interest. In fact, like their 19th-century ...

In Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times, Lethbridge looks at the service industry through the diaries, letters and memoirs of servants.

Even the servants themselves — once they retired, at least — could be sentimental about working in places like Downton Abbey, big houses with tight-knit communities of domestic staff and old ...

From Upstairs, Downstairs to Gosford Park and Downton Abbey, TV dramas and films have made us care about the characters below stairs. Domestic service was Britain's biggest employer a century ago ...

A hundred years ago, according to a recent book, domestic servants constituted Britain’s largest source of employment. That simple statistic reveals, better than anything else, the inequality of ...

In 1891, the number of indoor domestic servants is 1.38 million, which is a pretty high number," says Dr Pamela Cox, senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex. Image caption, Middle ...