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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The Women's Industrial News
Author: Evolving Households
Author: Jeremy GreenwoodPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262350866
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective through simple economic models. In Evolving Households, Jeremy Greenwood argues that technological progress has had as significant an effect on households as it had on industry. Taking a macroeconomic perspective, Greenwood develops simple economic models to study such phenomena as the rise in married female labor force participation, changes in fertility rates, the decline in marriage, and increased longevity. These trends represent a dramatic transformation in everyday life, and they were made possible by advancements in technology. Greenwood also addresses how technological progress can cause social change. Greenwood shows, for example, how electricity and labor-saving appliances freed women from full-time household drudgery and enabled them to enter the labor market. He explains that fertility dropped when higher wages increased the opportunity cost of having children; he attributes the post–World War II baby boom to a combination of labor-saving household technology and advances in obstetrics and pediatrics. Marriage rates declined when single households became more economically feasible; people could be more discriminating in their choice of a mate. Technological progress also affects social and cultural norms. Innovation in contraception ushered in a sexual revolution. Labor-saving technological progress at home, together with mechanization in industry that led to an increase in the value of brain relative to brawn for jobs, fostered the advancement of women's rights in the workplace. Finally, Greenwood attributes increased longevity to advances in medical technology and rising living standards, and he examines healthcare spending, the development of new drugs, and the growing portion of life now spent in retirement.
Industrial News Survey
Author: Women in Modern Industry
Author: B. L. HutchinsPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Report
Author: Canada. Dept. of LabourPublisher:
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Labor's News
Author: Women in Industry
Author: South Oaks FoundationPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873958042
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Papers from a conference on medical, emotional, and career problems of women in industry, held in April 1976 under the sponsorship of the South Oaks Foundation have been collected in this volume. Speakers from government, medicine, and the business worlds presented new research and recommendations for study of women in industrial work. Published by the South Oaks Foundation and Medical School of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Women in Industry
Author: Edith AbbottPublisher: New York : D. Appleton, 1910 [c1909]
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Sweated Industries
Author: Daily News (London)Publisher:
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Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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