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Introduction: Forum on American Domestic Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Joy K. Lintelman
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The articles on American domestic service that appear in this issue of Social Science History were part of a 1989 Social Science History Association Annual Meeting session. They reveal that, despite the investigations of Katzman (1978), Sutherland (1981), Dudden (1983), Glenn (1986), and others, there is still a great deal to know about domestic service in the United States. Each article offers a different perspective on transformations within domestic service in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and provides new information about different demographic categories of domestic servants. Taken together, they suggest creative new ways of understanding the occupation and its relationship to race, ethnicity, gender, and the industrial labor market.

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Research Article
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Social Science History , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , Fall 1991 , pp. 363 - 365
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1991 

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References

Dudden, Faye E. (1983) Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.Google Scholar
Glenn, E. N. (1986) Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.Google Scholar
Katzman, D. M. (1978) Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Sutherland, D. E. (1981) Americans and Their Servants: Domestic Service in the United States, 1800 to 1920. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.Google Scholar