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_aGreenwood, Jeremy, _d1953- _eauthor. _925775 |
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_aEvolving households : _bthe imprint of technology on life / _cJeremy Greenwood. |
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_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _c[2018] |
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_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2019] |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-299) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | _aMore working mothers -- The baby boom and baby bust -- The decline in marriage -- Social change -- Increased longevity and longer retirement -- Conclusion -- Mathematical appendix -- Bibliography. | |
506 | _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. | ||
520 | _aThe 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. | ||
530 | _aAlso available in print. | ||
538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web | ||
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_aFamilies _zUnited States _xHistory. _925777 |
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_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _925779 |
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_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _925780 |
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_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=8951010 |
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