Send proposals (200 words) (asap) to John Komlos via email.

This seminar addresses issues of associated with the modeling, conceptualization, demography, sociological and comparative aspects of domestic service.

• Determinants of change over time
• Country-specific aspects of recruitment into servitude
• Servants’ contribution to economic life
• Class and national identity
• Urban/rural and gender differences
• Demographic aspects: reproduction - life cycle considerations - age at leaving home.
• Comparative analysis across geographic boundaries
• Servants as status symbols
• Recruitment and models of push and factors
• Servants as part of the labor market - supply and demand considerations
• Remuneration
• Contracts and theory of contracts
• How the market worked - information and information networks
• Influence of economic conditions
• Short and long-distance migration
• Analysis of large data sets

This list is by no means exhaustive. Proposals on additional topics are welcome.