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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About this eBook
| Author | Nordström, Ester Blenda, 1891-1948 |
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| 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 | May 15, 2015 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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