Should-Read: Tim Worstall: The Robots Stealing Human Jobs-Bring It On

Should-Read: Tim Worstall: The Robots Stealing Human Jobs-Bring It On: “Spinning especially was a hugely labour intensive process which near all women did to some extent… https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/08/19/the-robots-stealing-human-jobs-bring-it-on/#524f81a421ff

…Thus that very word, homespun. By the time the Spinning Jenny got into its stride, as Henderson says, hundreds of thousands were employed in industry, outside the home. But that homespun, and thus that domestic labour, had disappeared. This is again the automation of a domestic task, the automation also bringing it out into the paid, market, economy…. Discussions of working hours, automation, robots and so on only make sense in an historical context if we include domestic labour as well as market. When we do we see that the process increases incomes, leisure and there are still jobs available…