German Historical Institute London2d ago
Have housemaids staged a comeback? Join us next Thursday for the final lecture in our Spring Series! 📅 Nicole Kramer (@[email protected]) will give a talk on 'The Return of the Maidservant? The Hidden History of Long-Term Care for Older People' at Pushkin House (with Zoom option). 1/4
Show threadGerman Historical Institute London2d ago
Sociologists and anthropologists examining paid domestic care work in Germany and other European countries argue that today's situation resembles the culture of servants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For a historian, this reference to the past is intriguing. 2/4
Show threadGerman Historical Institute London2d ago
But is it more than mere rhetoric? What can we learn about the structures of long-term care by looking to the past? This talk will focus on the history of long-term care for older people in the Federal Republic of Germany and compare it with developments in Great Britain and Italy. 3/4
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It will outline changes in policy in the post-war welfare state and discuss the long history of privatizing care. Sign up now: www.ghil.ac.uk/event... #historicalresearch #zeitgeschichte #contemporaryhistory #europeanhistory 4/4
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