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African American Women
Author_Alana Erickson Coble
Black Women
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CIO
Decennial Census
Domestic cleaning service
Domestic Service
Domestic Worker Union
Domestic workers
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Federal Bureau Of Investigation
gender and work
Gilt Edged
history of domestic labor relations
Household Employment
Illegal Aliens
Illegal Immigrants
Immigration laws
immigration policy impact
Internal Revenue Service
labor history
labor rights activism
Mistress Maid Relationship
New York
New York Amsterdam
Private Household Workers
Servant Shortage
Slave Market
social class dynamics
Social Security Board
Undocumented Workers
Violate
West Indian Immigrant
Women's Bureau
Women's City Club
Women's role
workforce stratification
WTUL
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415978095
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Over the course of the 20th century, American domestic service changed from an occupation with a hierarchical, top-down structure to one in which relationships were more negotiated. Many forces shaped this transformation: shifts in women's role in society, both at home and in the work force; changes in immigration laws and immigrant populations; and the politicization of the occupation. Moreover, domestic workers themselves took advantage of the resulting circumstances to demand better treatment and a say in their working conditions.
An independent scholar, Alana Erickson Coble was an editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City and has published articles in that and other encyclopedias, and in Race and Reason and the Journal of International andWorking-Class History. She has also worked in technology at MIT, Columbia and internet consultancies.
