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.

Fields of science

• social sciences › economics and business › business and management › employment
• social sciences › sociology › demography › human migrations

Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Topic(s)

• 1.4.1.-4. - Key action Socio-Economic Knowledge Base

Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

THN - Thematic network contracts

Coordinator

UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE

Address

Quai Roosevelt 1b, Bètiment A4
4000 Liege
Belgium

Participants (20)

AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

Spain

Address

Campus Universitari, Edefici B
08193 Bellaterra

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

France

Address

Boulevard Raspail 54
75270 Paris

CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRAGUE

Czechia

Address

Albertov 6
128 43 Praha 2

DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT THE HCSO

Hungary

Address

Angol Ut, 77
1149 Budapest

ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES

France

Address

Boulevard Raspail 54
75270 Paris

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE

Italy

Address

Via Dei Roccettini 9
50016 Firenze

ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ORIENTALE

Italy

Address

Piazza San Giovanni Maggiore 30
80134 Napoli

LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH

Germany

Address

Ludwigstrasse 33/iv
81377 Muenchen

LUND UNIVERSITY

Sweden

Address

1,tycho Brahes Väg
220 07 Lund

SCUOLA MEDIA STATALE "PRIMO LEVI - IQBAL MASIH"

Italy

Address

Via Pistoia 30
20153 Milano

STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT

Netherlands

Address

6500 HD Nijmegen

UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

Spain

Address

Praza Da Universidade 1
15782 Santiago De Compostela

UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

Spain

Address

Praza Da Universidade 1
15782 Santiago De Compostela

UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK

Poland

Address

Plac Uniwersytecki 1
15420 Bialystok

UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX

United Kingdom

Address

Wivenhoe Park
CO4 3SQ Colchester

UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE

Italy

Address

Via San Gallo 10
50129 Firenze

UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA

Switzerland

Address

Boulevard Carl-vogt 102
1211 Geneve

UNIVERSITY OF OSLO

Norway

Address

Moltke Moes Vei
0315 Oslo

UNIVERSITY OF UMEAA

Sweden

Address

Universitetsområdet
901 87 Umeaa

WESTFAELISCHE WILHELMS - UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER

Germany

Address

Schlossplatz 2
48149 Muenster