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Many middle-class families in TV sitcoms from the 50s - 80s had live-in housekeepers. (Brady Bunch, Hazel, the Jeffersons, etc.) How common were live-in housekeepers in real life? Why don't upper middle-class families have them now?

by /u/marfalump in /r/AskHistorians

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