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Call for Papers: Left History
Special Issue on the History of Domestic Service

Domestic service occupies an exceptional role in labour history for its
historic and contemporary intersections with issues of gender, race, and
class. As such, the study of paid domestic labour—women (and to a lesser
extent, men) hired to cook, clean, perform child care and other
services, in private homes and public spaces—has evolved. Once seldom
acknowledged as "real" labour, its position on the boundary of home and
work, and the often similarly unstable position of domestic workers in
the labour market make it an important site of study. The work of these
women and men —and, specifically, women and men of colour — is
consequently both a project of labour historians seeking to capture the
stories of these neglected workers and a site that feminist, Marxist,
and post-structuralist historians and theorists have used to interrogate
the concept of labour itself.

Left History is seeking submissions for a special issue on Domestic
Service, to be published in Fall 2007. We are looking for articles that
detail the history of domestic service across a variety of geographic
areas and periods, as well as articles that will interrogate the
relationship between domestic service, labour, gender, race, class, and
immigration. Left History welcomes research articles, theoretical
pieces, reviews, and artwork. Manuscripts should ideally be 20 to 30
pages, or 10 000 words, and can be submitted electronically or by mail
to the addresses below. The deadline is June 1st, 2007.

	The Editors, Left History
Department of History
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
Canada M3J 1P3

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