Esta tesis estudia el servicio doméstico en la ciudad de Buenos Aires a fines del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX. Vincula el análisis del sector a fenómenos tales como: la inmigración, el mercado laboral, las ...

This study is devoted to the Neo-Assyrian royal household as it emerges from the available cuneiform sources. It addresses the functions as well as the conditions of life and work of the royal household personnel. It ...

The present work seeks to demonstrate how the working relationship between boss and domestic servant is the result of a slaveholding inheritance and of legislation that placed the category in the margins of the other ...

Brazil is the country with the largest number of housemaids in the world. This occupation is not regulated yet, and people rarely think about health and safety of these workers. The purpose of this work is to identify the ...

In Argentina, substantial changes took place in domestic service since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, such as the decreasing number of workers per household, the gradual shift towards the coexistence of live-in ...

Using household surveys that cover more th3n 50 ye3rs of the political 3nd economic history of Chile, we investigate changes in the shape of the distribution of income in Chile, and in the composition of top 10% and top ...