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Housemaids Knee The Police
In this rather long and elaborate comedy for 1906 -- a full reel in length -- housemaids (actually men in drag) go on strike, abandon their charges, and join the picket lines, carrying signs raining opprobrium on their oppressors. They get drunk in saloons and throw out the cops. They battle policeman on the streets, and are victorious. The government calls in the army to put down the disruption, but can they restore order?
It was an ongoing fight from the 1840s to the start of the Second World War, with time out for bursts of patriotism during the Great War among men, who brought home the salaries; yet was the fight ever carried to the domestic workers? Not in any great or obvious number, and this short raises the question of why that never happened. It's not that cleaning or tending children is not a skilled trade; it requires assiduous care. Certainly middle-class society would end in a trice were the staff ever to lay down their tools and lead the householders to fend for themselves.
It was an ongoing fight from the 1840s to the start of the Second World War, with time out for bursts of patriotism during the Great War among men, who brought home the salaries; yet was the fight ever carried to the domestic workers? Not in any great or obvious number, and this short raises the question of why that never happened. It's not that cleaning or tending children is not a skilled trade; it requires assiduous care. Certainly middle-class society would end in a trice were the staff ever to lay down their tools and lead the householders to fend for themselves.
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- boblipton
- 1 ene 2023
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