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The Swabian Children and Child Welfare in the Eastern Alps, 1820-1921

This virtual event is co-sponsored by North Carolina German Studies. Throughout the nineteenth century, thousands of children from the Austrian Alps undertook yearly journeys to Southwest Germany, where they negotiated labor contracts at “child markets” (Kindermärkte) for work as domestics … Read more