Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl.'' says a Kansas City matron, "most of my friends' families had servants. Today I know of only one family with servants who live in. It isn't the pay. It's simply a matter of being unable to get a maid or a cook to live in at any price." Many families live in smaller homes than they can afford just so that they will be able to get along without domestic help, trusting to modern appliances to make the housewife's work easier. Los Angeles Architect William Pereira, who earns more than...
...streets who don't know how to make up a bed, but they do know how to apply as domestics." Domestic pay has risen slowly compared with other work, but in most cities outside the South a maid can draw as much as $75 a week, a cook more than $90-both with room and board included if they want it-and a chauffeur about $80 to $100 a week. Day workers usually charge by the hour, rarely get less than the $1.25 minimum wage and often get up to $2.50. Whatever the pay-and many families are willing...
Endless Staple. Some families prefer to do their own prospecting in Europe and import a cook or a maid without a written contract. This can lead to some poignant frustrations when the importee discovers what a seller's market domestic service is in the U.S. Cook stealing has long been a popular sport (even the Kennedys have tried it), but it has reached fantastic heights. Anna, a cook who came from Germany to Beverly Hills-where cook stealing is as popular as wife stealing-started at $250 a month. Within three weeks she had switched to another household...
Constance: I doubt if I could cook...
...feeling of security out here," says Rivenbark. "There's not someone breathing down your neck. We don't have to worry about a thing. We turn in our check, and that settles everything." Charles Barham, 23, convicted of breaking and entering, makes $50 a week as a cook at a cafe across from the North Carolina State College campus in Raleigh...