
In a New Light
In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands'' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of industrialized work as factories and mines. But while energy studies are beginning to acknowledge the importance of social and historical contexts and to produce more inclusive his...
In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands'' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of industrialized work as factories and mines. But while energy studies are beginning to acknowledge the importance of social and historical contexts and to produce more inclusive his...