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From:Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMost of the criticism on Mary Leapor's "Crumble-Hall" has focused on the ways in which the poem subverts the tradition of country-house poetry by its behind-the-scenes-look at domestic labor from the perspective of one...
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From:Refuge (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedResume Enfants en domesticite, enfants en service, ou restavek (reste avec), telles sont les appellations recues par des petites filles et des petits garcons qui sont places dans des familles d'accueil afin de servir...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 84, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe author describes visiting a friend who is arranging her daughter's wedding. The relationship of the friend's family with their servant and maintenance of vanishing social customs are discussed. As soon as the...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMobility has a long tradition on the European continent. Recent historical research shows migration as a "normal and structural element of human societies throughout history. (1) Among these people on the move were...
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From:Work and Occupations (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article poses the question What explains variation in the proportion of the labor force employed in paid domestic labor? In contrast to an older, modernization-theory-based literature that argued that paid domestic...
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From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 88, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn my day, that's just what Mennonite girls did. You'd go to town and become a maid. We could make more money working away.(1) --Mabel (Yoder) King After I'd given a poetry reading at the Writer's Center of the...
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From:The Journal of Corporate CitizenshipPeer-ReviewedSEPARATELY, THE INDONESIAN Children's Welfare Foundation (YKAI), in co-operation with the Ministries of Manpower and Transmigration, and the state Ministry for Women's Empowerment, launched a national campaign aimed at...
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From:Kennedy School Review (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedWilma spent years working as a housekeeper and child care provider for a family in Manhattan. Her job started at 5:45 a.m., seven days a week. Wilma, who was born in the Philippines, often worked more than one-hundred...
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From:Journal of Social History (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Swapna M. Banerjee, "Down Memory Lane: Representations of Domestic Workers in Middle Class Personal Narratives of Colonial Bengal" Salvaging information from the autobiographical narratives of middle-class...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn a memorable scene in Aparajito, the second film of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, the destitute Brahmin widow Sarbajaya watches her son learn to serve. She has recently obtained work as a cook in the household of a rich...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFor Telling Memories Among Southern Women, Mary Yelling interviewed about one-third of some 200 women who had the time and courage to talk to us about their memories of domestic workers and domestic work. As I said in...
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From:Woolf Studies Annual (Vol. 16) Peer-ReviewedIn "Time Passes," only one kind of character can appear without disturbing the reigning "loveliness and stillness" (TTL 129). Mrs. McNab does not disrupt Woolf's portrait of an uninhabited house because she herself...
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From:Socialist Lawyer (Issue 69)In 2012 the UK introduced a visa regime that does not permit domestic workers that arrive in the country accompanying an employer to change employer, even if they have been exploited or abused. The workers' residency...
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From:Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 47, Issue 2)Abstract This Note addresses the inability of domestic workers to seek redress for exploitation by diplomat employers. In examining the legal quagmire facing these workers, this Note highlights a departure by courts...
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From:Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSCHOLARS OF Chinese American history have long known of the disproportionate number of Chinese males who made the passage from China to the New World in the nineteenth century. Yet despite a greater understanding today...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 28, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn 1934, "Opal," a young Pomo Indian woman who worked as a domestic servant in the San Francisco Bay Area, wrote in exasperation to the Bureau of Indian Affairs outing matron who had placed her in employment with Mrs....
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 58, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the "Autobiographical Postscript" to a collection of her ghost stories, Edith Wharton recounts an inscrutable terror that plagued her for seven years as a child, when she was recovering from an almost fatal case of...
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From:Historical Studies (Vol. 74) Peer-ReviewedResume : Cet article dresse a partir des recensements nominatifs canadiens du XVIIe siecle un portrait detaille des domestiques engages specifiquement au service des communautes religieuses. Ces dernieres se placent...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCritic Andrew Levy points out the importance of the indoors for Wharton: "Indoor metaphors were a leitmotif in her letters, essays, and fiction, and her books on garden architecture and home decor were among her most...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedON JUNE 16, 2011, HOUSEHOLD WORKERS WORLDWIDE won the first international set of standards that acknowledged their right to decent work. The International Labor Organization (ILO) approved Convention 189, a treaty-like...