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The Backbreaking Daily Labor Of Housework Before Modern Technology


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In 1950, the average British woman spent her life in a kitchen virtually unchanged from her grandmother's era—hauling coal, scrubbing laundry by hand, and shopping every single day to prevent food from rotting in the larder. By 1959, that same room was a "Technical Wonderland."

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