Brokering Servitude
Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothee Schneider (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1017-1017 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaz060 |
| OpenAlex | W2917536932 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In the past two decades, immigration historians have shifted their focus away from community or ethnic histories and toward a social history of immigration law and policy. The best books in this genre fuse the history of political and legal developments with the cultural and social history of communities that lived the change. Brokering Servitude, by the Rutgers University historian Andrew Urban, has carved out an important and distinctive space in this growing field. Urban's book intends to explore how different actors and institutions in the United States, between 1850 and 1924, brokered the placement of migrants in household positions, and what they hoped to accomplish economically, politically, and socially through these transactions. (p. 6) The early chapters hew to this premise quite closely. The organized “export” of Irish women migrants into service positions in North America during the post-famine years is highlighted in chapter 1, juxtaposed to a chapter on the organized efforts to place freed slaves in domestic and other servant positions. The third chapter focuses on the special position of Chinese (male) domestic servants and the successful effort to define them and their labor in ways that would render this class of worker exempt from Chinese exclusion
Economic history · Economics · Ethnic group · Famine · Immigration · Irish · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Premise · Servant · Social mobility · Sociology · Urban history · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |