“Thanks to Historians on Housewives, there’s no shame in my Bravo game”: Bravo Patriarchs, Housewife Mistresses, and the Legacies of Unfree Labor in Early America w/ Dr. Allison Madar

In which the Historians learn about a Housewives connection in Chicago, discuss workplace power relations, surveillance, and employer policing on Below Deck and Below Deck Med, Flipping Out, and Vanderpump Rules, discuss some parallel and dissimilar treatment of unfree people in early America, play a round of ‘Foul on the Play’ and much, much more! 

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