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<div><strong>The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America <div> <div>From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 1920s, household domestic service was the single largest employer of women in the United States, and, in California, a pivotal occupation for male Chinese immigrants. Servants of both sexes accounted for eight percent of the total labor force - about one million people. In Brokering Servitude, Andrew Urban offers a history of these domestic servants, focusing on how Irish immigrant women, Chinese immigrant men, and American-born black women navigated the domestic labor market in the nineteenth century - a market in which they were forced to grapple with powerful racial and gendered discrimination. <div> <div>Through vivid examples like how post-famine Irish immigrants were enlisted to work as servants in exchange for relief, this book examines how race, citizenship, and the performance of domestic labor relate to visions of American expansion. Because household service was undesirable work stigmatized as unfree, brokers were integral to steering and compelling women, men, and children into this labor. By the end of
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- Author
- Urban, Andrew
- Publisher
- NYU Press; New York University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814760789
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Management, Language Learning
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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