We are living in a metabolic world where technology is an inevitable tool that we should learn to live with. Technology has been very rampant especially in our workplace to an extent that scholars are warning about possible layoffs due to excessive use of technology in our firms and industries. The evolution that has been […]
Industrialization Gone Too Far?
The article More Work for Mother really puts the evolution of technology into perspective. Industrialization has transformed the American household by making appliances more and more complex and tech savvy. The main controversy of the article was the idea that all of the technologies brought about to make our lives “easier” have, in fact, made our lives difficult. “The […]
Industrialization of the home and technology
I think that in the housework and technology article there are many pros and cons relate to the idea that technology makes our life easier. As we discussed in class, technology made our life easier in so many ways and in so many methods that we could have never thought that we could reach this […]
Real Housewives of Industrialization
Industrialization during the post-WWII era saw great improvements in already available technologies as well as the invention of several new ones. As Cowan points out, “when we think of the word industrialization, we think in terms not of homes but of factories and assembly lines and railroads and smokestacks.” Cleaning tools such as the vacuum […]
Industrialization of the Home
In the article “More Work for Mother,” Cowan discusses the industrialization of the American household. With each passing generation, household items kept becoming more modernized, therefore “industrializing the home.” All these advancements in household items were meant to make the lives of the people using them easier, but Cowan argues that while these advancements are […]
Industrialization and the Evolution of Technology
In the article More Work for Mother, the idea of industrialization is discussed in detail. The reading explains how life and technology have evolved dramatically over the last 150 years. An interesting idea that the author brought up is that as industrialization expanded and more products were being created to supposedly make our lives easier, […]
More Work For Mother?
This week we have spent a great deal of time talking about the industrial revolution in terms of the advancements that have been made in the household. There are a few points that really stood out to me in class and in the article “ More Work For Mother”. The first thing that I would […]
Industrialization of the American Household
In the book’s introduction of More Work for Mother by Cowan, she provides a critique of how historians and scientists have explained the industrialization of the American household. While she published her book several years ago, which can meet confusion with some readers, she provides a description of the industrialization of the household “industry” to that […]
“But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”
Steve Jobs was largely an idiot. Yet, he was a great talker and had a few good ideas. One of these sadly never came to fruition. His vision for the iPad was that it would replace textbooks on all college campuses, solving the technological problem of cumbersome portability and limited knowledge access. He wanted to […]
More Work For Mother
More Work for Mother was an interesting article especially along with the discussion in class today. The main point of the article was that even though technology has advanced so far in the past hundred or so years it seems as if there is more work than ever. One would assume that with more technology […]