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| Author: | Bowden, S. Offer, A. |
| Title: | Household appliances and the use of time: the United State and Britain since 1920s |
| Journal: | Economic History Review
1994 : NOV, VOL. 47:4, p. 725-748 |
| Index terms: | USA UNITED KINGDOM TIME |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Electrical appliances used in housework have diffused at slower rates than those used for entertainment. Housework appliances did not shorten domestic working hours, until the introduction of television made large inroads into domestic time budgets. Television viewing appears to have expanded up to the point where it no longer gave greater satisfaction than housework. Unlike the appliances of housework, those providing entertainment are not gendered, and have benefited from rapid technical innovation. |
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