En piga bland pigor by Ester Blenda Nordström

"En piga bland pigor" by Ester Blenda Nordström is a reportage book published in 1914. Nordström went undercover as a maid on a Swedish farm to expose the harsh realities of domestic servants' lives. Working sixteen-hour days with minimal rest, she documented the grueling conditions, shared cramped quarters, and stark inequalities between servants and employers. Her immersive investigation revealed a world of exhaustion and hardship, while also capturing unexpected moments of camaraderie and purpose among the workers in early twentieth-century rural Sweden. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Nordström, Ester Blenda, 1891-1948
Title En piga bland pigor
Note See also Ett pennskaft som piga, #48964.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_piga_bland_pigor_(bok)
Credits Produced by Jens Sadowski
Reading Level Reading ease score: 68.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language Swedish
LoC Class GN: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Anthropology
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Farm life -- Sweden
Subject Household employees -- Sweden
Category Text
eBook-No. 48961
Release Date
Last Update Oct 24, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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