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WRVM Collection. 2005.0002, Gift of Arlie Olney
Labor-Saving Devices, 1917
Efficiency strategies used in factories were scaled down for use in the home. The intention was to give women more free time by reducing the time they spent on repetitive tasks. Spoilers: it didn’t. Now women just had to do twice as much work in the same amount of time.