Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Migrant Brick- and Tile-Makers from the Island of Kythnos in Athens During the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Gendered Perspective

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History ((PEHS))

  • 266 Accesses

Abstract

This article discusses a large group of inner migrant brickworkers from the island of Kythnos (Greece) who worked at the brickyards of Athens, from a gendered perspective. Interaction of both sexes and their agency are studied by scrutinizing their families and their extended social and labour networks. Several contextual—methodological aspects, such as seasonal or permanent work, male and female migration, labour division among men and women, hands-on experience and managerial responsibilites, as well as notions like kinship, marriage, family ties, ethno-local networks, skills, assets, and dowry will be taken into consideration. The analysis is divided in five sections: (a) labour division and transfer of knowledge; (b) decision making process and the role of dowry; (c) paternalistic management; (d) permanent settlement and the ethno-local labour network of Kythnians; (e) integration process and external networks.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

Industrial and Commercial Guides

  • Alexakis, Georgios. 1906–1907. Πλήρης οδηγός του Πειραιώς, 1906–1907 [Complete Guide to Piraeus, 1906–1907]. Piraeus: Ermis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Anninos, P., and A. Gounaropoulos. 1924. Νέος επαγγελματικός οδηγός Αθηνών–Πειραιώς–Περιχώρων, 1924–1925 [New Business Guide to Athens–Piraeus–Suburbs, 1924–1925]. Athens: n.p.

    Google Scholar 

  • Artia. 1928. Μέγας οδηγός Πειραιώς [Guide to Piraeus], 1928–29. Piraeus: Artia.

    Google Scholar 

  • Artia. 1930. Μέγας οδηγός Πειραιώς [Guide to Piraeus], 1930–31. Piraeus: Artia.

    Google Scholar 

  • Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry-Flamma. 1935. Εμπορικός και βιομηχανικός οδηγός της Ελλάδος, 1935 [Commercial and Industrial Guide to Greece, 1935]. Athens: Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry-Flamma.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eastern Advertisement Company. 1913. Πανελλήνιος οδηγός (Το ελληνικόν ντιρέκτορι), 1913 [Panhellenic guide (The Greek Directory), 1913]. Athens: Eastern Advertisement Company.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fimi. 1929. Εμποροβιομηχανικός οδηγός Αθηνών Πειραιώς και Θεσσαλονίκης, 1929 [Commercial-Industrial Guide to Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, 1929]. Athens: Fimi.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gavriilidis, Gavriil. 1939. Μέγας Εμπορικός–Βιομηχανικός Επαγγελματικός Οδηγός Αθηνών–Πειραιώς–Περιχώρων, 1939 [Commercial-Industrial Guide to Athens–Piraeus–Suburbs, 1939]. Athens: Gavriilidis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hairopoulos, Takis. 1933. Ο εικονογραφημένος ελληνικός επαγγελματικός οδηγός εμπορίου–επιστημών– βιομηχανίας, 1933 [The Illustrated Greek Guide to Commerce–Sciences–Industry, 1933]. Athens: Panhellenic Illustrated Library.

    Google Scholar 

  • Iglesis, Nikolaos. 1905–1934 (13 vol.). Οδηγός της Ελλάδος [Guide to Greece], vol.: 1905–06, 1908–09, 1910–11, 1915, 1916–17, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1925–26, 1928–29, 1930, 1931, 1934–35, Athens: Iglesis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kousoulinos, Spyridon. 1904. Οδηγός της Ελλάδος, 1904 [Guide to Greece, 1904]. Athens: n.p.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kyrieris and Giannopoulos. 1921. Ελληνικός Οδηγός, 1921 [Guide to Greece, 1921]. Athens: Kyrieris-Giannopoulos and co.

    Google Scholar 

  • Panagopoulos, A. 1938. Εμποροβιομηχανικός οδηγός της Ελλάδος 1938 [Commercial and Industrial Guide to Greece, 1938]. Athens/Patras.

    Google Scholar 

  • Panagopoulos and Ganasoulis. 1935. Εμποροβιομηχανικός οδηγός της Ελλάδος, 1935 [Commercial and Industrial Guide to Greece, 1935]. Patras/Athens.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sideris, Nikolaos. 1939. Οδηγός βιομηχανίας της Ελλάδος, 1939 [Industrial Guide to Greece, 1939]. Athens: N. Sideris.

    Google Scholar 

  • Skenderidis, Theoklis. 1933. Οδηγός της ελληνικής βιομηχανίας, 1933–34 [Hellenic Industry Guide], 1933–34. Athens.

    Google Scholar 

  • Skenderidis, Theoklis. 1949. Οδηγός της ελληνικής βιομηχανίας, 1949–50 [Hellenic Industry Guide], 1949–50. Athens.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stamatiou, K., and V. Bouzouras. 1912. Πανελλήνιος οδηγός, 1912 [Guide to Greece, 1912]. Athens: n.p.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsapogas, Alexandros, and Spyridon Koudouris. 1930. Εμπορικός οδηγός “Ο Ερμής”, 1930 [“Ermis” commercial guide, 1930]. Athens.

    Google Scholar 

Newspapers

Bibliography

  • Aajeevika, Bureau. 2008. Brick-by-Brick. A Study on Situation of Migrant Brick Kiln Workers from Korta. Udaipur and London: Aajeevika Bureau—Overseas Development Institute. Accessed April 23, 2020. http://www.aajeevika.org/assets/pdfs/Brick%20by%20Brick%20-%20An%20Occupational%20Profile%20of%20Brick%20Kiln%20Migrant%20Workers.pdf.

  • Agriantoni, Chrstina. 2010. Οι απαρχές της εκβιομηχάνισης στην Ελλάδα τον 19ο αιώνα [The Beginnings of Industrialisation in Greece during the 19th Century]. Athens: Katarti.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alexakis, Eleftherios. 1994. “Περί της Βιτόρας ή του στοιχείου του σπιτιού: Η συμβολική συγκρότηση της οικογένειας και της συγγένειας στους Αρβανίτες της Αττικής” [Vitora or the Spirit of the House: The Symbolic Construction of Family and Kinship among the Arvanites of Attica]. Εθνολογία 2: 129–53.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alexakis, Eleftherios. 1996a. Τα παιδιά της σιωπής: Οικογένεια, συγγένεια και γάμος στους Αρβανίτες της Αττικής (1859–1940) [The Children of Silence: Family, Kinship and Marriage among the Arvanites of Attica (1859–1940)]. Athens: Parousia.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alexakis, Eleftherios. 1996b. “Διτοπική μεταγαμήλια εγκατάσταση και προίκα σε μια νησιωτική κοινότητα: Κέα Κυκλάδων” [Bilocal Post-Marriage Residence and Dowry in an Island Community: Kea in the Cyclades]. Εθνολογία 5 (1–2): 5–66.

    Google Scholar 

  • Asselin, Oliver, Françoise Dureau, Lucinda Fonseca, Matthieu Giroud, Abdelkader Hamadi, Josef Kohlbacher, Flip Lindo, Jorge Malheiros, Yann Marcadet, and Ursula Reeger. 2006. “Social Integration of Immigrants with Special Reference to the Local and Spatial Dimension.” In The Dynamics of International Migration and Settlement in Europe, A State of the Art, edited by Rinus Pennix, Maria Berger, and Karen Ktaal, 133–70. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Avdela, Εfi. 2000. Le genre entre classe et nation: Essais d’historiographie grecque. Paris: Syllepse.

    Google Scholar 

  • Avdela, Efi. 2004. “Η Ιστορία των γυναικών και του φύλου στη σύγχρονη ελληνική ιστοριογραφία: Αποτιμήσεις και προοπτικές” [The History of Women and Gender in Contemporary Greek Historiography: The State of the Art and Prospects]. In Ιστοριογραφία της νεότερης και σύγχρονης Ελλάδας 1833–2002 [Historiography of Modern and Contemporary Greece, 1833–2000], edited by Paschalis Kitromilides and Triantafyllos E. Sklavenitis, vol. 2, 123–38. Athens: Institute of Neohellenic Research.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bade, Klaus, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer, eds. 2013. The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bafouni, Evangelia, and Nikolaos Melios. 2005. Κάτω στον Πειραιά, στα Καμίνια. Η ιστορία της γειτονιάς [Down in Piraeus, at Kaminia. The History of a Neighborhood]. Piraeus: Institute for the Study of Local History and the History of Enterprises.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bardanis, Michalis. 2018. “Family Business in the Brick and Tile Industry in Athens, 1900–1940.” The Historical Review/La revue Historique 15 (2018): 91–131. https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historicalReview/issue/view/1266.

  • Barragán Romano, Rossana, and Leda Papastefanaki. 2020. “Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History: An Introduction.” International Review of Social History 65/2 (2020): 191–230.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bernotas, Rivo. 2013. “Brick-Making in Medieval Livonia—The Estonian Example.” Estonian Journal of Archaeology 17 (2): 139–56.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bertagna, Federica, and Marina Maccari-Clayton. 2013. “Italy”. In The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited by Klaus Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer, 107–115. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Biris, Kostas. 1960. Αρβανίτες: Οι Δωριοίς του νεώτερου Ελληνισμού. Ιστορία των Ελλήνων Αρβανιτών [Arvanites: The Dorians of New Hellenism; History of Greek Arvanites]. Athens, s.n.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blanc-Chaléard, Marie-Claude. 2013. “Italian Workers in the Construction Industry in the Paris Region since the 1870s.” In The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited by Klaus Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer, 524 – 527. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bournova, Eugenia. 2016. Οι κάτοικοι των Αθηνών, 1900–1960: Δημογραφία [Inhabitants of Athens, 1900–1960: Demography]. Athens: National and Kapodistrian university of Athens. Accessed June 17, 2019. http://ebooks.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/econ/catalog/book/4.

  • Campbell, John. 1964. Honour, Family and Patronage: A Study of Institutions and Moral Values in a Greek Mountain. Community. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Clark, Peter. 1987. “Migrants in the City: The Process of Social Adaptation in English Towns, 1500–1800.” In Migration and Society in Early Modern England, edited by Peter Clark and David Souden, 267–91. London: Hutchinson.

    Google Scholar 

  • Clarke, Linda. 2011. Building Capitalism. Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment. Oxon: Routledge (first edition 1992).

    Google Scholar 

  • Clarke, Linda, and Chris Wall. 2006. “Omitted from History: Women in the Building Trade.” Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Construction History (held in Queen’s College, Cambridge University, 29.3–2.4.2006), edited by Malcom Dunkelb, James W. P. Campbell, Hentie Louw, Michael Tutton, Bill Addis, and Robert Thorne, 35–59. Exeter: Short Run Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cook, Scott. 1988. Mexican Brick Culture in the Building of Texas, 1880s-1980s. Texas: Texas A & M University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Del Fabro, René. 2013. “Italian Industrial Workers in Western and Central Europe in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” In The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited by Klaus Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer, 501–507. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dertilis, George. 2005. Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Κράτους, 1830–1920 [History of the Greek State, 1830–1920], 3rd ed. Athens: Estia.

    Google Scholar 

  • Donato, Katharine, Donna Gabaccia, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansn IV, and Patricia R. Pessar. 2006. “A Glass Half Full? Gender in Migration Studies.” The International Migration Review 40/1, Gender and Migration Revisited: 3–26.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dritsas, Margarita. 1997. “Family Firms in Greek Industry during the Twentieth Century.” In European Enterprise: Strategies of Adaptation and Renewal in the Twentieth Century, edited by Margarita Dritsas and Terry Gourvish, 85-103. Athens: Trochalia Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  • Edoor, John. 2018. Archaic Technology, Social Relations and Innovations in Brick Κilns. New Delhi: Centre for Education and Communication.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eldem, Edhem. 2017. “Of Brick and Tiles: The History of Local Industry in the Area of Mürefte (Thrace).” In Living the Good Life. Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empire of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Elif Akçetin and Suraiye Faroqui, 433–73. Leiden: Brill.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fatsea, Irene, 2011. “Migrant Builders and Craftsmen in the Founding Phase of Modern Athens.” In The City in the Ottoman Empire: Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity, edited by Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, and Florian Riedler, 190–217. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Friedl, Ernestine. 1959. “The Role of Kinship in the Transmission of National Culture to Rural Villages in Mainland Greece.” American Anthropologist 61 (1): 30–38.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Friedl, Ernestine. 1962. Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gabaccia, Donna. 2001. “When the Migrants Are Men. Italy’s Women and Transnationalism as a Working-Class Way of Life.” In Women, Gender and Labour Migration. Historical and Global Perspectives, edited by Pamela Sharpe, 190–208. London and New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goldthwaite, Richard. 19822. The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Green, Nancy. 1999. “The Comparative Methods and Poststractural Structuralism: New Perspectives for Migration Studies.” In Migration, Migration History and History: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives, edited by Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, 57-72. Bern: Peter Lang.

    Google Scholar 

  • Green, Nancy. 2012. “Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women to Gender.” Gender & History 24 (3): 782–98.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hasluck, Frederick William. 1908–1909. “Albanian Settlements in the Aegean Islands.” Annual of the British School at Athens 15: 223–28.

    Google Scholar 

  • Haynes, Carolyne. 2019. Brick. A Social History. Cheltenham: The History Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Herzfeld, Michael. 1980. “The Dowry in Greece: Terminological Usage and Historical Reconstruction.” Ethnohistory 27 (3): 225–41.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Horrell, Sara, and Jane Humphries. 1997. “The Origins and Expansion of the Male Breadwinner Family: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Britain.” International Review of Social History 42 (1997), Supplement: 25–64.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ippel, Henry. 1993. “Example of Dutch Settlement in Grand Rapids. The Brickyard.” Paper presented at the 9th Biennial Conference on Dutch-American Studies, The Dutch and Their Neighbors in Transition, 3 Oct 1993, Calvin College, Grand Rapid, Michigan). Accessed June 18, 2019. https://dutchamericans.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/1993_04_ippel.pdf.

  • Johalas, Titos. 2010. Άνδρος. Αρβανίτες και αρβανίτικα [Andros. Arvanites and arvanitika]. Athens, Editions Typothito.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kenna, Margaret. 1976a. “The Idiom of Family.” In Mediterranean Family Structures, Peristiany, edited by J. G. Peristiany, 347–62. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kenna, Margaret. 1976b. “Houses, Fields and Graves: Property and Ritual Obligation on a Greek island.” Ethnology 15 (1): 21–34.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kenna, Margaret. 1978. “The Occupational Culture of Building Workers in Athens.” Paper presented at the SSRC Seminar on Anthropological Research in Europe, 16–17 December 1978. Accessed June 17, 2019. https://www.academia.edu/12112953/The_Occupational_Culture_of_Building_Workers.

  • Kessler, Gijs, and Jan Lucassen. 2013. “Labour Relations, Efficiency and the Great Divergence: Comparing Pre-industrial Brickmaking across Eurasia, 1500–2000.” In Technology, Skills and the Pre-modern Economy in the East and the West: Essays Dedicated to the memory of S.R. Epstein, edited by Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, 260–322. Leiden: Brill.

    Google Scholar 

  • King, Russell, Thomson Mark, Tony Fielding, and Tony Warnes. 2006. “Time, Generations and Gender in Migration and Settlement.” In The Dynamics of International Migration and Settlement in Europe. A State of the Art, edited by Rinus Pennix, Maria Berger, and Karen Kraal, 234–67. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Komis, Kostas. 2004. Νησιωτικά. Πληθυσμιακές μετακινήσεις, δημογραφικές ανακατατάξεις & οικονομικές διαμορφώσεις. [On Islands. Population Movements, Demographical Rearrangements & Financial Conformations]. Ioannina: University of Ioannina.

    Google Scholar 

  • Konstantinopoulos, Christos. 1987. Η μαθητεία στις κομπανίες των χτιστών της Πελοποννήσου. [Apprenticeship in Builder Groups in the Peloponnese]. Athens: Historical Archive of Greek Youth–General Secretariat for Youth.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kontostathis, Achilleas. 2013. Η Νέα Ερυθραία στη χαραυγή της ζωής της. Ένα χρονικό της κοινωνίας των προσφύγων της Νέας Eρυθραίας κατά τα πρώτα χρόνια της εγκατάστασης τους στα μισά του δρόμου Κηφισιάς – Εκάλης [Nea Erythraia and Its Begeining. A Cronicle of Nea Erythraia Migrants Society During the First Years of Their Settlement, Between Kifissia and Ekali]. Nea Erythraia: Municipality of Kiffisia, Cultural and Research Studies of Erythraia in Asia Minor.

    Google Scholar 

  • Korma, Lena. 2017. “The Historiography of the Greek Diaspora and Migration in the Twentieth Century.” Historein 16: 1–2. https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.8778.

  • Lourens, Piet, and Jan Lucassen. 2015. “Labour Mediation among Seasonal Workers, in Particular the Lippe Brick Makers, 1650–1900.” In The History of Labour Intermediation: Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, edited by Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner, and Alexander Mejstrik, 335–67. New York: Berghahn.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Lucassen, Jan. 1987. Migrant Labour in Europe 1600–1900: The Drift of the North Sea. Translated by Donald Bloch. London, Kent: Croom Helm Ltd.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lucassen, Jan. 2008. “Brickmakers in Western Europe (1700–1900) and Northern India (1800–2000): Some Comparisons.” In Global labour history. A state of the Art, edited by Jan Lucassen, 513–71. Bern: Peter Lang.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lucassen, Jan, and Leo Lucassen. 1997. “Migration, Migration History, History: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives.” In Migration, Migration History, History: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives, edited by Jan Lucassen, and Leo Lucassen, 2nd edition, 9–38. Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Paris and Wien: Peter Lang.

    Google Scholar 

  • Martinos, Nikos, and Marietta Georgouli. 2007. “Ονοματολογικά Δρυοπίδος Κύθνου” [On the onomatology of Dryopis-Kytnos]. In Ονόματα. Revue Onomastique, proceedings of the 4th Onomatological Conference, 334–42. Athens: Academy of Athens.

    Google Scholar 

  • Matović, Margareta. 1990. “Migration, Family Formation, and Choise of Marriage Partners in Stockholm, 1860–1890.” In Urbanization in History. A Process of Dynamic Interactions, edited by Ad van der Woude, Jan de Vries, and Akira Hayami, 220–42. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller Matthei, Linda. 1996. “Gender and International Migration: A Network Approach.” Social Justice 23 (3): 38–53.

    Google Scholar 

  • Moch, Leslie Page. 2013. “France”. In The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited by Klaus Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer, 52–62. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Morales, Alejandro. 1992. The Brick People. Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nitsiakos, Vassilis. 1990. “Μηχανισμοί εναλλακτικών κοινωνικών δομών: κουμπαριά και πελατειακές σχέσεις στην αγροτική Ελλάδα” [Mechanisms of Alternative Social Structures: Bestmanship and Client Relations in Rural Greece] Θεωρία και Kοινωνία 2: 121–30.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nitsiakos, Vassilis. 2016. Παραδοσιακές κοινωνικές δομές [Traditional Social Structures]. Ioannina: Isnafi.

    Google Scholar 

  • Oltmer, Jochen. 2013. “Geographical Mobility and Qualification—A Historical Perspective.” BWP Special Edition, 36–40. Accessed June 17, 2019. https://www.bibb.de/veroeffentlichungen/en/bwp/show/7058.

  • Panagiotopoulos, Vassilis. 1985. “Αγροτική έξοδος και σχηματισμός της εργατικής δύναμης στην πόλη” [Agrarian Exodus and the Formation of Labour Force into the City]. In Οθωμανικές Κληρονομιές και Ελληνικό Κράτος [Ottoman Inheritances and the Greek State] (conf. proceedings) vol. 2: 521–31. Athens: Mnimon.

    Google Scholar 

  • Papastefanaki, Leda. 2016. “Labour in Economic and Social History: The Viewpoint of Gender in Greek Historiography.” Genesis 15 (2): 59–83.

    Google Scholar 

  • Papastefanaki, Leda. 2017. Η φλέβα της γης. Τα μεταλλεία της Ελλάδας 19ος-20ός αιώνας [The Veins of the Earth: The Mines of Greece, Nineteenth-Twentieth Century]. Athens: Vivliorama.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pashalis, Dimitrios. 1934. “Οι Αλβανοί εις τας Κυκλάδας” [Albanians at Cyclades], Ημερολόγιον της Μεγάλης Ελλάδος [Calendar of Greater Greece]: 263–82.

    Google Scholar 

  • Peacock, David. 1982. Pottery in the Roman world: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach. London and New York: Longman.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pepelasis Minoglou, Ioanna. 2007. “Women and Family Capitalism in Greece, c. 1780–1940.” The Business History Review 81/3, 517–38.

    Google Scholar 

  • Price, Richard. 1975. “The Otherface of Respectability: Violence in the Manchester Brickmaking Trade. 1859–1870.” Past & Present, 66: 110–32.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Psaropoulou, Betty. 1990. Η κεραμική του χθες στα Κύθηρα και στην Κύθνο [Ceramic Art in Kythera and Kythnos, during the Past]. Athens: Friends of the Centre for the Study of Modern Pottery.

    Google Scholar 

  • Riginos, Michalis. 1999. “Η ελληνική βιομηχανία 1900–1940” [Greek Industry, 1900–1940]. In Εισαγωγή στην Νεοελληνική Οικονομική Ιστορία (18ος–20ός αιώνας) [Introduction to Modern Greek Economic History, 18th–20th Centuries], edited by Vassilis Kremmydas, 177-223. Athens: Typothitο.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ropaitou-Tsapareli, Zoi. 2006. Ο Ελαιώνας της Αθήνας. [Elaionas in Athens]. Athens: Filippoti.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sant Cassia, Paul, and Constantina Bada. 1992. The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchangein Nineteenth-century Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sharpe, Pamela. 2001. “Introduction. Gender and the Experience of Migration.” In Women, Gender and Labour Migration. Historical and Global Perspectives, edited by Pamela Sharpe, 1–14. London and New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sinke, Suzanne. 2006. “Gender and Migration: Historical Perspectives.” The International Migration Review 40/1, Gender and Migration Revisited (Spring): 82–203.

    Google Scholar 

  • Soutos, Christos, and Dimitrios Soutos. 2017. Ταύρος. Τοπογραφικές – ιστορικές – λαογραπηικές σελίδες. [Tavros. Pages of Topography—History—Folklore]. vol. I, Tavros, Editions Ekkyklima.

    Google Scholar 

  • Spathari-Begliti, Eleni. 1992. Οι αγγειοπλάστες της Σίφνου – κοινωνική συγκρότηση – παραγωγή – μετακινήσεις. [The Potters of Siphnos. Social Construction—Production—Movements]. Athens: Arsenili.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsoukalas, Κonstantinos. 2006. Εξάρτηση και αμαπαραγωγή. Ο κοινωνικός ρόλος των εκπαιδευτικών μηχανισμών στην Ελλάδα (1830–1922). [Dependence and Reproduction: The Social Role of the Educational Mechanisms in Greece, 1830–1920]. Trans Ioanna Petropoulou and Konstantinos Tsoukalas. Athens: Themelio.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tziovas, Dimitris. 2009, Diaspora and Migration since 1700. Society, Politics and Culture. Farnham & Burlington: Ashgate.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vallindas, Antonios. 1896. Ιστορία της νήσου Κύθνου από των αρχαιοτάτων χρόνων μέχρι τα καθ΄ ημάς, σχετιζομένη προς την των ομοταγών νήσων του Αιγαίου [History of the Island of Kythnos from Ancient Times to Today in Relation to the Aegean Island Complex]. Athens: Spyridon Kousoulinos.

    Google Scholar 

  • van Eijl, Corrie. 2013. “Dutch Labour Migrants in Germany in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” In The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited by Klaus Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer, 329–331. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • van Ravenswaay, Charles. 1977. German Settlements in Missouri. A Survey of a Vanishing Culture. Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Venetoulias, Giorgis. 2004. Τα κεραμικά της Κύθνου [The Ceramics of Kythnos]. Athens: Municipality of Kythnos, En Plo.

    Google Scholar 

  • Watt Kathleen, Ann. 1990. Nineteenth Century Brickmaking Innovation in Britain: Building and Technological Change (Ph.D. Thesis). York: University of York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilson, Tamar Diana. 2005. Subsidizing Capitalism. Brickmakers on the U.S.—Mexican Border. Albany: State University of New York Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yannitsiotis, Yannis. 2006. Η κοινωνική ιστορία του Πειραιά. Η συγκρότηση της αστικής τάξης. 1860–1910 [Social History of Piraeus. The Formation of Bourgeoisie]. Athens: Nefeli.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zucca Micheletto, Beatrice. 2014. “Only Unpaid Labour Force? Women’s and Girls’ Work and Property in Family Business in Early Modern Italy.” The History of the Family 19 (3): 323–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2014.92.135.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Michalis A. Bardanis

Authors
  1. Michalis A. Bardanis
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Michalis A. Bardanis .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell’Antichità, DiSSGeA, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Beatrice Zucca Micheletto

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Bardanis, M.A. (2022). Migrant Brick- and Tile-Makers from the Island of Kythnos in Athens During the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Gendered Perspective. In: Zucca Micheletto, B. (eds) Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99554-6_14

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99554-6_14

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-030-99553-9

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-030-99554-6

  • eBook Packages: Economics and FinanceEconomics and Finance (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation