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Compare the average number of servants per household in 1900 to the average number today--decimated by domestic automation. Many crops are harvested by machine
by learc83 12y ago
Compare the average number of servants per household in 1900 to the average number today--decimated by domestic automation.
Many crops are harvested by machines, replacing some of the absolute lowest skilled jobs.
And how many tellers have been replaced by ATMs, factory works by industrial robots, or secretaries by computers?
- walshemj 12y agoww1 and social changes like more women working in factories rather that in service have as much to do with that as the rise of the hoover
- learc83 12y agoDefinitely. But without domestic automation and electricity, the demand for servants wouldn't have changed much. A large household would be impossible to run without either modern technology or servants, so you'd have seen a large increase in wages. The number of servants wouldn't have changed nearly as much as it did.
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