Waged Domestic Work and the Making of the Modern World Conference
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9th - 11th May 2008 at the University of Warwick, UK
 'The Kitchen' (c.1908), Harold Gilman (National museum of wales)An international conference to explore the role of waged domestic work in the making of modern economic, social, and cultural formations will be held at the University of Warwick from 9th to 11th May 2008.The conference brings together scholars from various fields, including, History, Sociology, Gender Studies, English, Social Anthropology, and Migration Studies. It will also draw together academics from a multitude of countries, ranging from, South Africa, to Egypt, from Singapore, to Canada, and from the USA, to Greece. The aim of the conference is to see what happens when waged domestic work is given a place in the historical, sociological, political and cultural stories of modernity that have hitherto neglected it.
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