INFO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gas Stove, Industrial Revolution, Jerry Maguire
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Address reading problem at least 90 students need to do reading in order to not have to do a final exam. As cleaning become more efficient expectation goes up. Going grocery shopping becomes a lot more complicated because of the increase in canning. Industrial revolution in the home brought new efficiencies and promises of liberation for women. More efficient cleaning methods were met with a rise of cleanliness. Proliferation of consumer goods and products meant more time spent gathering and sharing information. More than half of the time social. Discussed how telephone might stay with us. In line with the derogatory image of chatty women using the phone to gossip womens phone use did seem to by largely social. We can also recognized social and emotional work as a kind of labor- cultivating community, managing social ties, etc. Phone use coincided with rise of housewife administrator.
