![]() ![]() Cowan, who is Director of the Women’s Studies Program and an Associate Work for mother and less work for father and the children.ĭr. And she shows how theĭevelopment of household technology meant, as her book’s title suggests, more The widely accepted belief that during the period of industrialization, the homeīecame a centre of consumption rather than production. Re-interpretations of historical materials particularly in her examination of To change the way you think about household labour. ![]() ![]() The rigorous scholarship of a trained historian to write a book which is bound In the best tradition of women’s studies, Cowan hasĬombined an understanding of her own and other women’s personal experiences with Technology, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, addresses in her recently published book, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. This is one of the key questions which the historian of ![]() Transformed by technology, by so-called labour-saving devices? How is this possible when the home, like other work places, has been Same number of hours a week as their predecessors did three hundred yearsĮarlier. In North America, full-time homemakers in the 1980s work virtually the ![]()
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