123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Governing the Home: Rethinking Labor and Colonial Relations in the History of Domestic Service

Governing the Home: Rethinking Labor and Colonial Relations in the History of Domestic Service

AHA Session 207

Monday, January 5, 2009: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen

Chair:

Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University

Papers:

Intimate Labor: Household Workers, Middle-Class Reformers, and Public Health Laws
Vanessa May, Seton Hall University

“They Do the Work Others Won’t Do": United States Immigration Policy and the Figure of the Immigrant Domestic Servant
Andrew Urban, University of Minnesota

Domestic Work and the Labor Question in the Gilded Age United States
Lara Vapnek, St. John's University

Comment:

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