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Have these jobs existed in the US in the first place? Was it commonplace for people to have cooks for example? Not to nitpick but is it really a matter of jobs

• imglorp 10y ago
  It was definitely fairly common for middle class in my neighborhood (60's, 70's US) to have a cook or a maid, at least for special occasions or maybe a few times a week. We also had diaper service, dry cleaner, milk, and Charles Chips: all pickup and delivery by a dedicated truck on a regular schedule. All these service jobs are gone now. Dead tree newspaper delivery is next.
• SamReidHughes 10y ago
  On the street I grew up in, the houses all had maid quarters. These were suburban houses built in the 20's and are smaller than the typical McMansion from the 80's. Also there was that one episode of Baywatch where Mitch hired a cook...
• zeveb 10y ago
  Women of my maternal grandmother's generation & class expected to have daily help with the washing & children (her class was such that it wasn't unknown for women like her to themselves have domestic jobs). It was really common once upon a time.
• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Have these jobs existed in the US in the first place? Was it commonplace for people to have cooks for example? IIRC, yes, there was a time (up through the late 19th, early 20th century) where having at least one live-in household servant, often either specifically a cook or a generalist where cook would be part of their duties, was typical of the middle class, and not entirely uncommon in the middle class through the middle or so of the 20th Century.