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Really? Could you provide a bit more information? How did it work prior to that?
by joebeetee 13y ago
Really? Could you provide a bit more information? How did it work prior to that?
- singingfish 13y agowell pre-industrially work was largely home of near the home based. Everybody pitched in, in much the same way you see work being divided up in developing countries these days. While many benefits arose from industrial society, I don't feel that semi-disenfranchising women from large swathes of the workforce was one of them (men get the crappy end of the stick too). The wikipedia page on the housewife indicates that it's a thousands of years old phenomenon, but I think that is making assuptions about money being as important in society as it is today (and outside of industrial society it really isn't).