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Servants of the Poor – Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America de Janet Nolan

Servants of the Poor – Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America

Autor Janet Nolan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 oct 2004
In the late nineteenth century, an era in which social mobility was measured almost exclusively by the success of men, Irish-American women were leading their ethnic group into the lower-middle-class occupations of civil service, teaching, and health care. Unlike their immigrant mothers who often became servants of the rich, Irish-American daughters became servants of the poor by teaching in public school classrooms. Janet Nolan argues that the remarkable success of Irish-American women was tied to their educational achievements and to the encouragement of their mothers who had been educated in the Irish national schools. By the first decade of the twentieth century, Irish-American women were the largest single ethnic group among public elementary school teachers in cities such as Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Servants of the Poor is a pioneering work which looks at the teaching profession at the turn of the century from the perspective of these women.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780268036591
ISBN-10: 0268036594
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 159 x 242 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: MR – University of Notre Dame Press

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"In this slim, engaging volume, Janet Nolan examines the role of education and teaching in the lives of Irish Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ...Nolan's work is impressive. . . . She has provided an informative description of Ireland's educational system and has offered many new insights into the challenges that Irish American teachers faced. This work will appeal to readers interested in Irish America, women's history, and the history of education." —American Historical Review

“Janet Nolan's Servants of the Poor adds to the growing literature on the role that women played in Irish assimilation and social mobility in the United States . . . The Irish-American women public school teachers studied here offer information both on women's lives and on the dynamics of Irish assimilation . . . a major accomplishment.” —New Hibernia Review

"Servants of the Poor is a model of detailed research and skillful writing. From letters, memoirs, interviews, family lore, and photographs, the generations of women come alive. Nolan's study emphasizes the female-driven group mobility of Irish Americans that came through teaching. . . . Because the accounts are so compelling, the reader is left wanting more." —The Journal of American History

"Offering statistical as well as anecdotal sources to support her arguments, Nolan verifies what students of Irish American history recognize as footnotes in other works: that Irish and Irish American women made up significant, if not majority, proportions of the public school faculty at the turn of the twentieth century. This is a fascinating window on the past, particularly in light of contemporary battles in the classroom and the state of the public school in America. . . . Her valuable work only begins to tell us the contributions and controversies that the Irish brought to American education." —American Catholic Studies

Notă biografică

Janet Nolan is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago.

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“Servants of the Poor demonstrates how Irish-American women entering public school teaching brought economic security and social mobility to their Irish-American families at the turn of the twentieth century. Nolan’s energetic and engaging book is clear, well-written, and a valuable contribution to Irish-American studies.” —Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University

“Nolan has produced a masterful monograph that is thoroughly researched, carefully documented, well written, and very interesting.” —James T. Carroll, Iona College

In the late nineteenth century, an era in which social mobility was measured almost exclusively by the success of men, Irish-American women were leading their ethnic group into the lower-middle-class occupations of civil service, teaching, and health care. Unlike their immigrant mothers who often became servants of the rich, Irish-American daughters became servants of the poor by teaching in public school classrooms. Janet Nolan argues that the remarkable success of Irish-American women was tied to their educational achievements and to the encouragement of their mothers who had been educated in the Irish national schools. By the first decade of the twentieth century, Irish-American women were the largest single ethnic group among public elementary school teachers in cities such as Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Servants of the Poor is a pioneering work which looks at the teaching profession at the turn of the century from the perspective of these women.

Janet Nolan is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago.

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In the late 19th century, Irish-American women were leading their ethnic group into the lower-middle-class occupations of civil service, teaching, and health care. Janet Nolan argues that the roots of this female-driven mobility can be traced to immigrant women's education in Ireland.