Circuits of Mobile Workers in the 19th-Century Central Balkans

Authors

Evguenia Davidova, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2020

Subjects

Balkan Peninsula -- History, Migrant labor, Balkan Peninsula -- Emigration and immigration

Abstract

This article compares the geographic and social mobility of two “lesser known” groups of workers: merchants’ assistants and maidservants. By combining labor mobility, class, and gender as categories of analysis, it suggests that such examples of temporary and return migration opened up new economic possibilities while at the same time reinforcing patriarchal order and increasing social inequality. Such transformative social practice is placed within the broader socio-economic and political fabric of the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans during the “long 19th century.”

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© 2020 Evguenia Davidova

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2020-31-1-3

DOI

10.25365/oezg-2020-31-1-3

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33864

Citation Details

Davidova, E. (2020). Circuits of Mobile Workers in the 19th-Century Central Balkans. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 31(1), 48-67.