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Domestic Work: Paid and Unpaid

Anderson, Bridget. "Servants and Slaves: Europe’s Domestic Workers", Race and Class 39, 1 (1997), 37-49.

Anderson, Robin John. "Domestic Service: The YWCA and Women’s Employment Agencies in Vancouver, 1898-1915", Histoire Sociale/Social History xxv, 50 (1992), 307-333.

Andre, Rae. Homemakers: The Forgotten Workers (Chicago, 1981).

Arat-Koc, Sadef. "Immigration Policies, Migrant Domestic Workers, and the Definition of Citizenship in Canada", in Deconstructing a Nation: Immigration, Multiculturalism, and Racism in the ‘90s ed. Satzewich, Victor. (Halifax, 1992), 229-242.

Arat-Koc, Sadef. "In the Privacy of Our Home: Foreign Domestic Workers as a Solution to the Crisis in the Domestic Sphere in Canada", Studies in Political Economy 28 (Spring 1989), 33-58. Reprinted in Feminism in Action: Studies in Political Economy eds. Connelly, M. Patricia. & Armstron, Pat. (Toronto, 1993).

Backhouse, Constance. "White Female Help and Chinese-Canadian Employers: Race, Class, Gender, and Law in the Case of Yee Clun, 1924", Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes Ethniques au Canada 26, 3 (1994), 34-52.

Bakan, Abigail B. & Stasiulis, Daiva K. "Making the Match: Domestic Placement Agencies and the Racialization of Women’s Household Work", Signs 20, 2 (1995), 303-335.

Barber, Marilyn J. "Below Stairs: The Domestic Servant", Material History Bulletin 19 (Spring 1994), 37-46.

Barber, Marilyn. "The Servant Problem in Manitoba, 1896-1930", in First Days, Fighting Days: Women in Manitoba History ed. Kinnear, Mary. (Regina 1987), 100-119.

Biggs, Katherine. "Domestic Service in Saint John, N.B., 1850-1890", MA Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1992.

Bose, Christine E. "Domestic Work and Sponsored Mobility: Race and Ethnic Differences in the U.S. in 1990", State University of New York, Albany, 1995.

Bradbury, Bettina. "Women’s Workplaces: The Impact of Technological Change on Working Class Women in the Home and in the Workplace in Nineteenth Century Montreal", in Women, Work and Place ed. Kobayashi, Audrey. (Montreal, 1994)., 27-44.

Bradley, Mary. "Mary Bradley Reminisces: A Domestic Life in Colonial New Brunswick", Atlantis 7, 1 (Fall 1981), 92-101.

Canada. Taskforce on Immigration Practices and Procedures. Domestic Workers on Employment Authorization: A Report to the Task Force on Immigration Practices and Procedures (Ottawa, 1981).

Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. ed. "Duty and ‘Fast Living’: The Diary of Mary Johnson Sprow, Domestic Worker", Washington History 5, 1 (1993), 46-65.

Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. "’This Day Had an End’: African-American Domestic Workers in Washington D.C, 1780-1940", in "To Toil the Livelong Day": America’s Women at Work, 1780-1980 eds. Groenman, Carol. & Norton, Mary Beth (Ithaca, 1987), 96-212.

Clarke, Karen A. & Ogus, Anthony I. "What is a Wife Worth?", British Journal of Law and Society 5, 1 (Summer 1978), 1-25.

Cohen, Rina. "The Work Conditions of Immigrant Women Live-in Domestics: Racism, Sexual Abuse, and Invisibility", Resources for Feminist Research 16, 1 (1987), 36-38.

Connelly, M. Patricia. & MacDonald, Martha. "Women’s Work: Domestic and Wage Labour in a Nova Scotia Community", Studies in Political Economy 10 (Winter 1983), 45-72. Reprinted in The Politics of Diversity: Feminism, Marxism, and Nationalism eds. Hamilton, Roberta. & Barrett, Michele. (London, 1986), 53-80.

Coulter, Rebecca. "Young Women and Unemployment in the 1930s: The Home Service Solution", Canadian Woman Studies 7, 4 (1989), 145-166.

Culliwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant (New Brunswick, N.J., 1984).

Daenzen, Patricia M. Regulating Class Privilege: Immigrant Servants in Canada, 1940s-1990s (Toronto, 1993).

DaMotta, Alda B. "Doing Housework for Pay: Political Struggles and Legal Rights of Domestic Workers in Brazil", Department of Sociology, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, 1994.

Dennerstein, Lorraine. "Mental Health, Work, and Gender", International Journal of Health Services 25, 3 (1995), 503-509.

Dill, Bonnie Thornton. "Black Women in Private Household Work: A Study of Race, Sex Roles, and Social Change", Memphis State University, TN, 1979.

Elliot, Shirley B. "Domestic Life in Early Halifax", Journal of Education 19, 2 (1970), 31-35. Reprinted as A History of Everyday Things in Nova Scotia, Volume 2: Domestic Life in Early Halifax (Halifax, 1972).

Fairley, Margaret. "Domestic Discontent", Canadian Forum 55 (1975).

Fellman, Anita Clair. "Hapless Housewives in Havenless Homes", Canadian Review of American Studies 14, 3 (1983), 297-308.

Fox, Bonnie. ed. Hidden in the Household: Women’s Domestic Labour Under Capitalism (Toronto, 1980).

Gagnier, Regenia. & Dupre, John. "On Work and Idleness", Feminist Economics 1, 3 (1995), 96-109.

Gerstein, Ira. "Domestic Work and Capitalism", Radical America 7, 4-5 (1973), 101-128.

Gimenez, Martha. Work Without Wages: Comparative Studies of Domestic Labour and Self-Employment (Albany, 1990).

Glazer, Nona. "Towards a Theory of Women’s Social Class Position: Housewives and their Work", Portland State University, Oregon, 1979.

Grossman, Jean Baldwin. "Illegal Immigrants and Domestic Employment", Industrial and Labor Relations Review 37, 2 (1984), 240-251.

Hill Bridget. Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1996).

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. "Regulating the Unregulated? Domestic Workers’ Social Networks", Social Problems 41, 1 (1994), 50-64.

Huggett, Frank Edward. Life Below Stairs: Domestic Servants in England From Victorian Times (London, 1977).

Kaprielian, Isabel. "Women and Work: The Case of Finnish Domestics and Armenian Boarding House Operators", Resources for Feminist Research 12, 4 (1983-84), 51-54.

Kaprielian, Isabel. "Refugee Women as Domestics: A Documentary Account", Canadian Woman Studies 10, 1 (Spring 1989), 75-79.

Kemp, Alice Abel., Jenkins, Pam. & Biehl, Molly. "Reconceptualizing Women’s Work: A Focus on the Domestic and Eligibility Work of Women on Welfare", Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 23, 3 (1996), 69-89.

Klippenstein, Frieda Esau. "’Doing What We Could’: Mennonite Domestic Servants in Winnipeg, 1920s to 1950s", Journal of Mennonite Studies 7 (1989), 145-166.

Kome, Penny. Somebody Has to Do It: Whose Work is Housework (Toronto, 1982).

Lacelle, Claudette. Urban Domestic Servants in 19th Century Canada (Ottawa, 1987).

Lacelle, Claudette. Urban Domestic Servants in 19th Century Ottawa (Ottawa,1987).

Lenskyj, Helen. "A ‘Servant Problem’ or a Servant Mistress Problem? Domestic Service in Canada 1890-1930", Atlantis 7, 1 (Fall 1981), 3-11.

Leslie, Genevieve. "Domestic Service in Canada, 1880-1920", in Women at Work, Ontario, 1850-1930 eds. Acton, Janice. Et al, (Toronto, 1974), 71-125.

Lindstrom-Best, Varpu. "’Going to Work in America’: Finnish Maids, 1911-1930", Polyphony 8 (1986), 17-20.

Lindstrom-Best, Varpu. "’I Won’t Be a Slave!", Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911-1930", in Looking Into My Sister’s Eyes: An Exploration into Women’s History ed. Burnet, Jean. (Toronto, 1986), 33-53.

Luxton, Meg. More Than a Labour of Love: Three Generations of Women’s Work in the Home (Toronto, 1980).

Macklin, A. "Foreign Domestic Worker: Surrogate Housewife of Mail Order Servant" McGill Law Journal 37 (1992), 681-760.

Martin, Linda. & Seagrave, Kerry. The Servant Problem: Domestic Workers in North America (Jefferson, N.C., 1985).

McBride, Theresa M. The Domestic Revolution: The Modernization of Household Service in England and France, 1820-1920 (London, 1976).

McPherson, Kathryn. A ‘Round the Clock Job’: A Selected Bibliography of Women’s Work at Home in Canada (Ottawa, 1983).

Meissner, Martin. et al. "No Exit for Wives: Sexual Division of Labour and the Cumulation of Household Demands", Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 12 (1975), 424-439.

Morton, Suzanne. Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s (Toronto, 1995).

Pierson, Ruth Roach. "The Politics of the Domestic Sphere", in Canadian Women’s Issues, Volume II: Bold Visions Pierson, Ruth Roach. & Cohen, Marjorie Griffith. (Toronto, 1995), 1-82.

Rallins, Judith. Between Women: Domestics and their Employers (Philadelphia, 1985).

Romero, Mary. "Domestic Service in the Transition from Rural to Urban Life: The Case of La Chicana", Women’s Studies (Great Britain) 13, 3 (1987), 199-222.

Romero, Mary. Maid in the USA (New York, 1992).

Sanjek, Roger. & Cohen, Shellee. eds. At Work in Homes: Household Workers in World Perspective (Washington, D.C., 1990).

Schneider, Dorothea. "The Work That Never Ends: New Literature on Paid Domestic Work and Women of Color", Journal of American Ethnic History 17 (Winter 1998), 61-66.

Silver, Hilary. "Homework and Domestic Work", Department of Sociology Brown University, Providence, R.I.

Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Discovering the Home: The Last 150 Years of Domestic Work in Canada", in Women’s Paid and unpaid Work: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives ed. Bourne, Paula. (Toronto, 1985), 35-60.

Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Keeping House in God’s Country: Canadian Women at Work in the Home", in On the Job: Confronting the Labour Process in Canada eds. Heron, Craig. & Storey, Robert. (Montreal; Kingston, 1986).

Townson, Monica. Domestic Workers and the Employment Standards Act. (Toronto, 1987).

Tucker, Susan. " A Complex Bond; Southern Black Domestic Workers and their White Employers", Frontiers 9, 3 (1987), 6-13.

Tucker, Susan. Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South (Baton Rouge, 1988).

Turbin, Carole. "Domestic Service Revisited" Private Household Workers and Employers in a Shifting Economic Environment", International Labour and Working Class History 47 (1995), 91-100.

VanRaaphorst, Donna L. Union Maids Not Wanted: Organizing Domestic Workers, 1870-1940 (New York, 1988).

Yancy, Dorothy Cowser. "Dorothy Bolden, Organizer of Domestic Workers: She Was Poor but She Would Not Bow Down", Sage: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women 3, 1 (1986), 53-55.

Zadravomyslova, Elena. "Problems of Becoming a Housewife", in Women’s Voices in Russia Today eds. Rotkirch, Anna. & Haavio-Mannila, Elina. (Aldershot, England, 1996), 33-48.