Add to ORKGInterviews with former domestic servants as well as published memoirs provide a glimpse into the backgrounds, work lives, and migration patterns of young Newfoundland women who worked in service in St. John’s and smaller communities during the 1920s and 1930s. Migration from outport communities into domestic service work was a common experience for young women with few other options. “Girls in service” found positions not only in the homes of the wealthy but also in middle class and some skilled working class households. Domestics reported a sense of “difference” from their employers and engaged in a variety of strategies to resist exploitation.À partir d’entrevues réalisées auprès d’anciennes employées domestiques ainsi que de mémoires pub...
Oral histories can amplify the voices of marginalized, racialized women who have been otherwise excl...
servant [S] 1 [S] nEven during the eighteenth century a varied winter population existed, comprisin...
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During the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth century, middle and upper-class households ...
This article deals with the migration patterns of female domestic servants from the province of Zeel...
This article investigates the antecedents, experience and consequences of service in the lives of ru...
This article focuses on the experiences of women teachers in the city of St. John’s between the 192...
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Die Autorin untersucht, inwieweit Mädchen vom Lande, die als Dienstmädchen in die Stadt abwanderten,...
This paper defines, describes, and to some extent analyses the traditional Newfoundland "time," an i...
Contrary to the negative stereotype created by progressive era reformers and maintained by later com...
This thesis examines household economies in the Bay of Islands from 1900 to 1935. Simple demograph...
Oral histories can amplify the voices of marginalized, racialized women who have been otherwise excl...
servant [S] 1 [S] nEven during the eighteenth century a varied winter population existed, comprisin...
Belonging is important in Newfoundland and Labrador but with its long history of patrilocality, wher...
Domestic service remained a central occupation for women in Canada until World War II, although its ...
While it has been generally understood that domestic service was an institution of particular import...
During the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth century, middle and upper-class households ...
This article deals with the migration patterns of female domestic servants from the province of Zeel...
This article investigates the antecedents, experience and consequences of service in the lives of ru...
This article focuses on the experiences of women teachers in the city of St. John’s between the 192...
What did young, single, unaccompanied Irish women experience when immigrating to the United States i...
Over the span 1880 to 1900, Montreal was a city of newcomers, a majority of them women, and most of ...
Die Autorin untersucht, inwieweit Mädchen vom Lande, die als Dienstmädchen in die Stadt abwanderten,...
This paper defines, describes, and to some extent analyses the traditional Newfoundland "time," an i...
Contrary to the negative stereotype created by progressive era reformers and maintained by later com...
This thesis examines household economies in the Bay of Islands from 1900 to 1935. Simple demograph...
Oral histories can amplify the voices of marginalized, racialized women who have been otherwise excl...
servant [S] 1 [S] nEven during the eighteenth century a varied winter population existed, comprisin...
Belonging is important in Newfoundland and Labrador but with its long history of patrilocality, wher...