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The socio-economic role of domestic service as a factor of european identity

Objective

It was long expected that domestic service would disappear, that technological progress would eliminate it. Today, recourse to domestic help is still frequent. Their number is perhaps even increasing, due a wide range of reasons: current changes in labour organisation, including women's increasing presence in the labour market, increasing number of people living alone requiring domestic help, especially the elderly, growing immigration to EC from less favoured areas. Interest already exists in the European servant population of the past. This population represented about a fourth of the young generation, and about 10% of total population. Servants were the most mobile element and were major actors in changing mentalities. Creating development models for such a social group would not only shed new light on European social change in past centuries, but would also offer long term interpretation schemes to better understand the present.

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UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE
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Quai Roosevelt 1b, Bètiment A4
4000 Liege
Belgium

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Participants (20)

AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA
Spain
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Campus Universitari, Edefici B
08193 Bellaterra

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CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
France
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Boulevard Raspail 54
75270 Paris

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CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRAGUE
Czechia
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Albertov 6
128 43 Praha 2

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DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT THE HCSO
Hungary
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Angol Ut, 77
1149 Budapest

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ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES
France
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Boulevard Raspail 54
75270 Paris

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE
Italy
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Via Dei Roccettini 9
50016 Firenze

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ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ORIENTALE
Italy
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Piazza San Giovanni Maggiore 30
80134 Napoli

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LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH
Germany
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Ludwigstrasse 33/iv
81377 Muenchen

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LUND UNIVERSITY
Sweden
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1,tycho Brahes Väg
220 07 Lund

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SCUOLA MEDIA STATALE "PRIMO LEVI - IQBAL MASIH"
Italy
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Via Pistoia 30
20153 Milano

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STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT
Netherlands
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6500 HD Nijmegen

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UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Spain
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Praza Da Universidade 1
15782 Santiago De Compostela

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UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Spain
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Praza Da Universidade 1
15782 Santiago De Compostela

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UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK
Poland
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Plac Uniwersytecki 1
15420 Bialystok

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UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
United Kingdom
Address
Wivenhoe Park
CO4 3SQ Colchester

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UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
Italy
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Via San Gallo 10
50129 Firenze

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UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA
Switzerland
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Boulevard Carl-vogt 102
1211 Geneve

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UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
Norway
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Moltke Moes Vei
0315 Oslo

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UNIVERSITY OF UMEAA
Sweden
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Universitetsområdet
901 87 Umeaa

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WESTFAELISCHE WILHELMS - UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER
Germany
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Schlossplatz 2
48149 Muenster

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