Over the past 60 years, the type of work Americans do has undergone a dramatic shift. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, nearly a third of people worked in manufacturing — building the cars, airplanes, washing machines, and televisions that their neighbors used and that defined America. Nowadays, more than 80% of Americans work in
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The oft-misunderstood field spans science and nutrition and promotes that cooking and cleaning is undervalued as a form of labor. Home economics has been a “back door for women to enter science” that turned into an “empire of jobs and influence,” Danielle Dreilinger writes in “The Secret History of Home Economics.” Home economists can be