Residential domestic servants and girls who kept house, almost entirely overlooked in existing studies, had extremely low levels of spending money.
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Most of the entries in these handbooks relate to the servants and day labourers (both male and female) whom this farmer employed.
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In particular, we need to look at the complex ways in which imperial servants themselves actually negotiated these codes.
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Contrary to the instrumental model of a legally completely ' 'programmed' ' administration, civil servants enjoy considerable flexibility and autonomy when implementing political programmes.
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The young unmarried women did not move out of their sibling's household to become, for instance, shop assistants or domestic servants.
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However, the self-interest of legislators who were country gentlemen employing servants and farm laborers was also a significant factor.
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Gatekeeping took a variety of forms with the civil servants.
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Such men remained the under-labourers, the privates, even the servants of the dominant, innovative, geological elite.
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The union complained that so few cooks could hardly provide food and act as servants for the ten guards assigned to them.
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In keeping with the bureau-shaping models assertions, senior public servants tended to stay in parent departments, retained policy and strategic roles.
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Agriculture appears, therefore, to have been carried out with the assistance of thirteen labourers and only three servants in husbandry.
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Bureaucratic autonomy was ensured in the first decades of independence, by the retention of expatriate senior civil servants.
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Now ministers, more and more, come to look on their top civil servants as managers running a department, rather than as policy advisers.
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In a comparison of real administrative costs and real term expenditure, the data support the bureau-shaping thesis that public servants work to maximise their budgets.
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Sectional interests were especially powerful, and conquest was driven forward by ambitious colonels, civil servants and professional patriots.
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Collocationswithservant
servant
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domestic servant
Similarly, there was no sizeable difference between the incomes of a domestic weaver and adomesticservant.
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faithful servant
He has been a true andfaithfulservantto all his constituents, the nation and the world.
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female servant
Nofemaleservantis named in the debt entries, but women are cited as such more generally in these court rolls.
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