Note 263 — Chapter VIII · THE INDUSTRIAL DISADVANTAGES OF DOMESTIC SERVICE
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“A great many very ignorant girls can get housework to do, and a girl who has been used to neatness and the refinement of a good home does not like to room with a girl who has just come from Ireland and does not know what neatness means.”
“In ⸺ they have much colored help and do not have white help, so the white girls think any other work is better than housework.”
“In California self-respecting girls do not like to work with Chinamen—they do not know how to treat women.”
“Before the introduction of Chinese labor a young girl never lost social caste by doing housework; but since this element came, household service as an occupation has fallen in the social scale.”—Employer.
“When a native American girl goes out to housework she loses caste at once, and can hardly find pleasure in the foreign immigrants that form the majority of servants, and who make most of the trouble from their ignorance and preconceived notions of America.”—Employer.