Did the Sewing Machine Reduce the Workload for Women?

Is new technology that replaces a worker a good thing? We have a tendency, it seems to me, to believe that most previous inventions turned out to have overall net social benefits, but to be worried that all future inventions will instead have overall net social costs. Philipp Ager and Davide Coluccia tackle the question of Continue reading Did the Sewing Machine Reduce the Workload for Women? The…