Events

Producing Domesticity: a bioarchaeology of domestic labor in Irish immigrants, 19th-century New York City

Education Center rm 118 College of Charleston, CHARLESTON, SC, United States

A lecture by Dr. Alanna Warner-Smith, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. The rise of industrial capitalism not only restructured labor and class, but also reconfigured the intimate spaces of the home and everyday life. As the workplace moved out of the home, the home was idealized as private and separate from the market. […]