Washerwomen in the Georgian period belonged, for the most part, to the small army of part-time and casual workers who found employment when and where they could. As handlers of one of the most coveted (as well as necessary) commodities of the period they were a focus of interest to a wide range of society and were growing in number as many householders came to rely less on resident domestic servants. Washerwomen were prime players in the ‘economy of makeshifts’, relying on a miscellany of supplementary activities to ‘get by’ and in which they showed both enterprise and agency.

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格鲁吉亚洗衣机妇女：十八世纪以来的浴缸故事

格鲁吉亚时期的华盛顿妇女大都属于一小部分兼职和临时工，他们在可能的时间和地点找到了工作。作为该时期最令人垂涎​​的（也是必需的）商品之一的处理者，它们引起了整个社会的关注，并且由于许多家庭越来越少地依赖于当地的家庭佣人，其数量正在增加。华盛顿妇女是“临时经济体系”的主要参与者，他们依靠各种各样的补充活动来“度过”，并在其中展示了企业和代理机构。