Why irish became domestics

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Required articles: "Why Irish Became Domestics and Italians and Jews Did Not" by Stephen Steinberg, 2007 and "Defining Race" by Howard Taylor, 2006. Question: In "Why Irish Became Domestics..." why were social historical antecedents a factor in why Italians, Jews and Irish came to the US, and why Italian and Jewish women were less likely to become domestics in the US? Also, why were Irish women much more likely to become domestics in the US?

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