Chapter II: Historical Aspects of Domestic Employments

Condition of industries in the eighteenth century 7
Inventions of the latter part of the century 7
Immediate result of these inventions 8
Co-operating influences 8
Effect of inventions on household employments 9
Release of work from the household 9
Diversion of labor from the household to other places 10
Results of this diversion to other places 11
Diversion of labor from the household into other channels 11
Household labor becomes idle labor 12
Outlets for idle labor 12
General result of change of work in the household 13
Division of labor in the household only partial 13
Interdependence of all industries 15