Domestic service and the formation of European identity : understanding the globalization of domestic work, 16th-21st centuries

"Before the Servant Project began its activities, on the initiative of the editor of this book, the long term history of domestic service was still in its beginning stage. This volume is the first wide-ranging attempt to determine the role of domestic workers both in past and present times. Domestic service was of major importance in the multi-secular process of urbanization and socio-economic development of European societies. Today, domestic workers (mainly women) represent an important component of international labour migrations to Western countries. Instead of disappearing, as expected for a long time, paid domestic work is currently experiencing a kind of "resurgence". The contributions assembled in this volume analyze the situation of domestic workers, and contribute to improve knowledge concerning their individual characteristics (gender, ethnic group, religion), origin, motivation and cultural identity, relationship with their own families and those of the employers. Further topics are connections with the home country and place of destination, legal status, rights and duties, in order to understand the current globalization of domestic work."-- taken from back cover The Social And Economic Significance Of Servant Migration / Richard Wall -- Migration, Servanthood And Assimilation In A New Environment / Beatrice Moring -- Life-cycle Servants In Nineteenth Century Swededn: Norms And Practice / Christer Lundh -- Female Domestic Servants In Sundsvall. A Swedish Sawmill Town, During Industrialization / Marie-christine (lotta) Vikstrom -- Agricultural Work, Social Structure And Labour Markets Of The Rural Domestic Service In Galicia In The Mid-eighteenth Century / Isodro Dubert -- Domestic Service In Spain, 1750-1836: The Domestic Servants Of The Clergy / Ofelia Rey Castelao And Raquel Iglesias Estepa -- Domestic Staff In The Czech Lands At The Turn Of The 19th And 20th Centuries In The Light Of Statistical Fgures / Ludmila Fialova -- The Legal Status Of Servants In Norway From The Seventeenth To The Twentieth Century / Solve Sogner -- Domestic Service In Spain. Legislation, Gender And Social Practice / Aurelia Martin Casares --^ Domestic Service And The Law In Early Modern Japan / Mary Louise Nagata -- Political Reforms In The Domestic Service Sector -- Aims And Impact / Karen Jaehrling -- Promoting Domestic Workers' Human Dignity Through Specific Regulation / Adelle Blackett -- From Family Member To Employee: Aspects Of Continuity And Discountinuity In English Domestic Service, 1600-2000 / Sheila Mcisaac Cooper -- Irregular Migration And The Globalization Of Domestic Work: Migrant Domestic Workers In Germany / Helma Lutz And Susanne Schwalgin -- Calling The Tune: Domestic Worker's Earnings And Intr-household Gender Relations In Turkey / Gul Ozyegin -- Women Breadwinners In The Margins: Filipina Domestic Workers In Rome, Italy / Margaret Magat -- Gender Inequalities In The New Global Economy / Rhacel Salazar Parrenas -- The Dynamics Of The Mistress-servant Relationship / Pothiti Hantzaroula --^ Mistresses Of Themselves? Female Domestic Servants And By-employments In Sixteenth-century Scottish Towns / Elisabeth Ewan -- The Three Colours Of Domestic Service In Belgium At The Start Of The Twenty-first Century / Suzy Pasleau And Isabelle Schopp -- Gender, Care And Globalization As Seen From Norway / Louise Widding Isaksen -- Irish Domestic Servants And Englsih National Identity / Bronwen Walter -- Was Bridget's Experience Unique? A Comparative View Of American Domestic Service Over Time And Space / Margaret Lynch-brennan -- Were Servants Paid According To Their Productivity? Carmen Sarasua -- Domestic Service In Precolonial India: Bondage, Caste And Market / Shireen Moosvi -- Domestic Workers -- Past And Present. Antoinette Fauve-chamoux (ed.). Includes Bibliographical References. Attempts to determine the role of domestic workers both in past and present times. Analyses the situation of domestic workers, and contributes to improve knowledge concerning their individual characteristics (gender, ethnic group, religion), origin, motivation and cultural identity, relationship with their own families and those of the employers. Further topics are connections with the home country and place of destination, legal status, rights and duties, in order to understand the current globalization of domestic work