{"id":12167,"date":"2009-08-14T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=12167"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:51:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:51:04","slug":"the-invention-and-institutionalization-of-work-and-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/14\/the-invention-and-institutionalization-of-work-and-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invention And Institutionalization Of “Work” And “Home”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea that work and home are in different places was institutionalized only recently in human history (and is still not reality everywhere).\u00a0 In early American history, most people were farmers.\u00a0 Both men and women worked at home.\u00a0 The technological advances that brought industrialization removed work from home.\u00a0 The factory was invented to house large machinery and many workers.\u00a0 Enter: wage work, the commute, and wives that “just” stayed home.<\/p>\n

Today, the idea that work and home are separate places is largely taken for granted (though this may be reversing a bit) and is, in fact, institutionalized with zoning laws that specify whether space is to be used for work (and what kind), living, or both.<\/p>\n

Dmitriy T.M. sent us a link to the images below<\/a>.\u00a0 They compare the population of New York City and its boroughs<\/del> the bottom two-thirds of Manhattan and parts of New Jersey, Brooklyn, and Queens during the day and night.\u00a0 It reveals nicely how we are organized so as to use different spaces differently.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The idea that work and home are in different places was institutionalized only recently in human history (and is still not reality everywhere).\u00a0 In early American history, most people were farmers.\u00a0 Both men and women worked at home.\u00a0 The technological advances that brought industrialization removed work from home.\u00a0 The factory was invented to house large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,1826,253,272,304,341,76],"class_list":["post-12167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-geographymaps","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily","tag-the-state","tag-ruralurban","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51935,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167\/revisions\/51935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}