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Author Hardyment, Christina.

Title From mangle to microwave : the mechanization of household work / Christina Hardyment
Published Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Basil Blackwell, 1988

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Description xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Includes index
Analysis Domestic appliances
Great Britain Household equipment, 1851-1986
Housework
Overseas item
Technological change
Notes Great Britain. Household equipment,. history (BNB/PRECIS)
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [203]-209
Subject Household appliances -- History -- 19th century.
Household appliances -- History -- 20th century.
Household appliances -- Great Britain -- History.
Household appliances, Electric -- History -- 19th century.
Household appliances, Electric -- History -- 20th century.
Housewives -- History -- 19th century.
Housewives -- History -- 20th century.
Housewives -- Great Britain.
Household Articles -- history.
Housekeeping -- history.
Technology -- history.
LC no. 90041473
ISBN 0745602061
074560207X (paperback)