household employees

Overwhelmed with housework, Rabbit decides to get help in cooking, cleaning, and gardening.

A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.

Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

Laura and Willa, born the same night seventeen years ago on opposite sides of Darien, Connecticut, are both unhappy with their lives and when they discover they look remarkably alike, they decide to try out one another's lives for four months.

In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.

When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.

William, the eldest son in the wealthy Jones family, has broken off his engagement to the daughter of a viscount because of his love for the maid Emma, and when the viscount arranges for Emma to be shipped off to America, William follows, leaving his family to deal with the social fallout.

A young Indian woman tells her life story, describing her abandonment by her mother, beatings from her father, marriage at the age of twelve to an abusive older man, and struggle to survive and raise three children alone after leaving her husband, and explains how her work as a maid for a retired anthropology professor led to her learning to read and write and becoming an author.

Contains two plays by twentieth-century French author Jean Genet, including "The Maids, " the story of two domestic workers who attempt to destory their employer; and "Deathwatch, " in which two convicts go to great lengths to impress a fellow prisoner who has become a legend in criminal circles.