Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930
by
Margaret Lynch-Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Many of the socially marginalized Irish immigrant women of this era made their living in domestic service. In contrast to immigrant men, who might have lived in a community with their fellow Irish, these women lived and worked in close contact with American families. Lynch-Brennan reveals the essential...