Andrew Urban
Biographic Data
| ID | 3889338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Urban |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Urban |
| SIGNATURE | URBAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public History and Labor
Agricultural Public History, Reimagined
When feeling especially buoyant, I like to imagine a future in which busloads of students arrive in Upper Deerfield Township, New Jersey, where the agribusiness Seabrook Farms once operated. By the end of World War II, Seabrook Farms was unrivaled as a producer of canned, dehydrated, and frozen vegetables. At peak production, it employed nearly seven thousand laborers in its fields, plants, and trucking fleets. In 1947, the company directly culti…
The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine
Journal Article The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine Get access The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine. By Cian T McMahon. (New York: New York University Press, 2021. 315 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $23.00.) Andrew Urban Andrew Urban Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law by Adelle Blackett
Adelle Blackett’s Everyday Transgressions has its origins in the 2010 publication of a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) titled “Decent Work for Domestic Workers,” which she was invited to author as a law professor with expertise in international labor law. The ILO is a UN agency, and in 2011 ILO delegates representing workers, employers, and member state officials passed Convention 189, which for the first time spelled out sp…
Domestic Workers of the World Unite! A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights by Jennifer N. Fish
To scholars who are familiar with arguments about the limitations of global governance, cynicism about the United Nations’ International Labor Organization’s (ILO) ability to have a tangible effect on the day-to-day lives of domestic workers is understandable. The ILO functions as a tripartite organization that brings representatives of workers, employers, and governments to the bargaining table to pass labor standards. Convention 189, which pass…
Redemption and Revolution: American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century
Motoe Sasaki's Redemption and Revolution examines the ideological backdrop to the interactions between white Protestant American women working as missionaries in China, who identified as New Women, and the native Chinese women they aimed to train for professional lives in education, medicine, and science. Missionaries believed that China's struggles to achieve “modernity” could be seen in the retrograde cultural attitudes that the Chinese elite h…
Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century
Brokering Servitude examines how labor markets for domestic service were identified, shaped, and governed by philanthropists, missionaries, commercial offices, and the state. Because household service was undesirable work and stigmatized as menial and unfree, brokers were integral to steering and compelling women, men, and children into this labor. By the end of the nineteenth century, the federal government—as the sovereign power responsible for…
Social Work and Substantive Justice: The International Institutes’ Response to Discriminatory Immigration and Naturalization Laws, 1924–1945
Research Article| October 01 2017 Social Work and Substantive Justice: The International Institutes’ Response to Discriminatory Immigration and Naturalization Laws, 1924–1945 Andrew Urban Andrew Urban Andrew Urban is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University. His forthcoming book, Brokering Servitude (NYU Press, 2018), examines how immigration policies shaped labor markets for domestic service. His next project wil…
Yun Ch’i-ho’s Alienation by Way of Inclusion: A Korean International Student and Christian Reform in the “New” South, 1888–1893
This article explores Yun Ch’i-ho’s studies and social life at Vanderbilt University and Emory College between 1888 and 1893, and the expectations surrounding white Methodists’ investment in his mission to bring Christian and national reform to Korea. Yun’s diary entries document the tensions that existed between late nineteenth-century articulations of white supremacy and, conversely, missionaries’ idealized framing of Christianity as a universa…
Art as an Ally to Public History
Meaningful Designs: Orchestrating the Immigrant and Ethnic Landscape
Commodity Production and the Sociology of Work: Ideologies of Labor and the Making of Globalization
A common feature in almost any world atlas is the colorful, symbol-driven commodity maps that identify national and global regions by the production of specific types of crops or the extraction of natural resources found there. Oranges grow in the state of Florida in the United States; copper is mined in the northern region of Chile; perhaps tiny representations of sheep indicate that Australia is a major producer of wool. These visual production…
The Great American Hall of Wonders
The Great American Hall of Wonders.” Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington, D.C. http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2011/wonders/. Temporary exhibition, July 15, 2011–Jan. 8, 2012. 5,500 sq. ft. Claire Perry, independent curator. “The Great American Hall of Wonders” examined how nineteenth-century Americans understood the role of science and invention in propelling social and technological change. Focusing on the period 1826 to 1…
Asylum in the Midst of Chinese Exclusion: Pershing’s Punitive Expedition and the Columbus Refugees from Mexico, 1916–1921
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans
Irish Domestic Servants, ‘Biddy’ and Rebellion in the American Home, 1850–1900
This essay looks at the role that Anglo‐American women played in governing their Irish immigrant domestic servants and at the racial and gendered meanings that were attached to servitude. In the second half of the nineteenth century, female Irish Catholic immigrants predominated in domestic service employment in the north‐eastern United States. Newspaper and magazine articles portrayed the home as a site of conflict where Protestant, middle‐class…
Engaging with Public Engagement: Public History and Graduate Pedagogy
Does an increased enthusiasm for publicly engaged scholarship and service learning at many universities translate into a tangible commitment for such projects? How can historians reconcile their participation in public scholarship with trends that promote neoliberal models of university finance and governance, which often put the university at odds with the public outside and inside its walls? In the fall of 2005, a group of history and American …
Legends of Deadwood
“Legends of Deadwood.” Adams Museum, 54 Sherman St., Deadwood, SD 57732. Permanent exhibition, opened May 2002. M–Sa 9–5 May–Sept.; Tu–Sa 9–4 Oct. –April. Adults $3, children $2 (suggested). 9,000 sq. ft. Darrel Nelson, curator. Internet: brief description and map of exhibition, hours, directions, events, and online store, http://adamsmuseumandhouse.org/museum/map.html. The Black Hills town of Deadwood, South Dakota, has capitalized on its histor…
Irish Domestic Servants, ‘Biddy’ and Rebellion in the American Home, 1850–1900
This essay looks at the role that Anglo‐American women played in governing their Irish immigrant domestic servants and at the racial and gendered meanings that were attached to servitude. In the second half of the nineteenth century, female Irish Catholic immigrants predominated in domestic service employment in the north‐eastern United States. Newspaper and magazine articles portrayed the home as a site of conflict where Protestant, middle‐class…
Yun Ch’i-ho’s Alienation by Way of Inclusion: A Korean International Student and Christian Reform in the “New” South, 1888–1893
This article explores Yun Ch’i-ho’s studies and social life at Vanderbilt University and Emory College between 1888 and 1893, and the expectations surrounding white Methodists’ investment in his mission to bring Christian and national reform to Korea. Yun’s diary entries document the tensions that existed between late nineteenth-century articulations of white supremacy and, conversely, missionaries’ idealized framing of Christianity as a universa…
Legends of Deadwood
“Legends of Deadwood.” Adams Museum, 54 Sherman St., Deadwood, SD 57732. Permanent exhibition, opened May 2002. M–Sa 9–5 May–Sept.; Tu–Sa 9–4 Oct. –April. Adults $3, children $2 (suggested). 9,000 sq. ft. Darrel Nelson, curator. Internet: brief description and map of exhibition, hours, directions, events, and online store, http://adamsmuseumandhouse.org/museum/map.html. The Black Hills town of Deadwood, South Dakota, has capitalized on its histor…
Legends of Deadwood
“Legends of Deadwood.” Adams Museum, 54 Sherman St., Deadwood, SD 57732. Permanent exhibition, opened May 2002. M–Sa 9–5 May–Sept.; Tu–Sa 9–4 Oct. –April. Adults $3, children $2 (suggested). 9,000 sq. ft. Darrel Nelson, curator. Internet: brief description and map of exhibition, hours, directions, events, and online store, http://adamsmuseumandhouse.org/museum/map.html. The Black Hills town of Deadwood, South Dakota, has capitalized on its histor…
Engaging with Public Engagement: Public History and Graduate Pedagogy
Does an increased enthusiasm for publicly engaged scholarship and service learning at many universities translate into a tangible commitment for such projects? How can historians reconcile their participation in public scholarship with trends that promote neoliberal models of university finance and governance, which often put the university at odds with the public outside and inside its walls? In the fall of 2005, a group of history and American …
Irish Domestic Servants, ‘Biddy’ and Rebellion in the American Home, 1850–1900
This essay looks at the role that Anglo‐American women played in governing their Irish immigrant domestic servants and at the racial and gendered meanings that were attached to servitude. In the second half of the nineteenth century, female Irish Catholic immigrants predominated in domestic service employment in the north‐eastern United States. Newspaper and magazine articles portrayed the home as a site of conflict where Protestant, middle‐class…
Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans
Asylum in the Midst of Chinese Exclusion: Pershing’s Punitive Expedition and the Columbus Refugees from Mexico, 1916–1921
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Commodity Production and the Sociology of Work: Ideologies of Labor and the Making of Globalization
A common feature in almost any world atlas is the colorful, symbol-driven commodity maps that identify national and global regions by the production of specific types of crops or the extraction of natural resources found there. Oranges grow in the state of Florida in the United States; copper is mined in the northern region of Chile; perhaps tiny representations of sheep indicate that Australia is a major producer of wool. These visual production…
The Great American Hall of Wonders
The Great American Hall of Wonders.” Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington, D.C. http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2011/wonders/. Temporary exhibition, July 15, 2011–Jan. 8, 2012. 5,500 sq. ft. Claire Perry, independent curator. “The Great American Hall of Wonders” examined how nineteenth-century Americans understood the role of science and invention in propelling social and technological change. Focusing on the period 1826 to 1…
Meaningful Designs: Orchestrating the Immigrant and Ethnic Landscape
Yun Ch’i-ho’s Alienation by Way of Inclusion: A Korean International Student and Christian Reform in the “New” South, 1888–1893
This article explores Yun Ch’i-ho’s studies and social life at Vanderbilt University and Emory College between 1888 and 1893, and the expectations surrounding white Methodists’ investment in his mission to bring Christian and national reform to Korea. Yun’s diary entries document the tensions that existed between late nineteenth-century articulations of white supremacy and, conversely, missionaries’ idealized framing of Christianity as a universa…
Art as an Ally to Public History
Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century
Brokering Servitude examines how labor markets for domestic service were identified, shaped, and governed by philanthropists, missionaries, commercial offices, and the state. Because household service was undesirable work and stigmatized as menial and unfree, brokers were integral to steering and compelling women, men, and children into this labor. By the end of the nineteenth century, the federal government—as the sovereign power responsible for…
Social Work and Substantive Justice: The International Institutes’ Response to Discriminatory Immigration and Naturalization Laws, 1924–1945
Research Article| October 01 2017 Social Work and Substantive Justice: The International Institutes’ Response to Discriminatory Immigration and Naturalization Laws, 1924–1945 Andrew Urban Andrew Urban Andrew Urban is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University. His forthcoming book, Brokering Servitude (NYU Press, 2018), examines how immigration policies shaped labor markets for domestic service. His next project wil…
Domestic Workers of the World Unite! A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights by Jennifer N. Fish
To scholars who are familiar with arguments about the limitations of global governance, cynicism about the United Nations’ International Labor Organization’s (ILO) ability to have a tangible effect on the day-to-day lives of domestic workers is understandable. The ILO functions as a tripartite organization that brings representatives of workers, employers, and governments to the bargaining table to pass labor standards. Convention 189, which pass…
Redemption and Revolution: American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century
Motoe Sasaki's Redemption and Revolution examines the ideological backdrop to the interactions between white Protestant American women working as missionaries in China, who identified as New Women, and the native Chinese women they aimed to train for professional lives in education, medicine, and science. Missionaries believed that China's struggles to achieve “modernity” could be seen in the retrograde cultural attitudes that the Chinese elite h…
Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law by Adelle Blackett
Adelle Blackett’s Everyday Transgressions has its origins in the 2010 publication of a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) titled “Decent Work for Domestic Workers,” which she was invited to author as a law professor with expertise in international labor law. The ILO is a UN agency, and in 2011 ILO delegates representing workers, employers, and member state officials passed Convention 189, which for the first time spelled out sp…
Agricultural Public History, Reimagined
When feeling especially buoyant, I like to imagine a future in which busloads of students arrive in Upper Deerfield Township, New Jersey, where the agribusiness Seabrook Farms once operated. By the end of World War II, Seabrook Farms was unrivaled as a producer of canned, dehydrated, and frozen vegetables. At peak production, it employed nearly seven thousand laborers in its fields, plants, and trucking fleets. In 1947, the company directly culti…
The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine
Journal Article The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine Get access The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine. By Cian T McMahon. (New York: New York University Press, 2021. 315 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $23.00.) Andrew Urban Andrew Urban Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
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