Help for housewives: Domestic service and the reconstruction of domesticity in Britain, 1940-50

This article argues that examining the debates over domestic science that t ook place in the late 1940s can produce insights into the ways in which gen der, class and domesticity were inextricably linked and understood. The art icle focuses on three specific examples: a social survey of domestic servic e produced privately, a government report on the domestic organisation of p rivate households, and a radio debate broadcast by the BBC Home Service.