The transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective through simple economic models.
In Evolving Households, Jeremy Greenwood argues that technological progress has had as significant an effect on households as it had on industry. Taking a macroeconomic perspective, Greenwood develops simple economic models to study such phenomena as the rise in married female labor force participation, changes in fertility rates, the decline in marriage, and increased longevity. These trends represent a dramatic transformation in everyday life, and they were made possible by advancements in technology. Greenwood also addresses how technological progress can cause social change.
Greenwood shows, for example, how electricity and labor-saving appliances freed women from full-time household drudgery and enabled them to enter the labor market. He explains that fertility dropped when higher wages increased the opportunity cost of having children; he attributes the post–World War II baby boom to a combination of labor-saving household technology and advances in obstetrics and pediatrics. Marriage rates declined when single households became more economically feasible; people could be more discriminating in their choice of a mate. Technological progress also affects social and cultural norms. Innovation in contraception ushered in a sexual revolution. Labor-saving technological progress at home, together with mechanization in industry that led to an increase in the value of brain relative to brawn for jobs, fostered the advancement of women's rights in the workplace. Finally, Greenwood attributes increased longevity to advances in medical technology and rising living standards, and he examines healthcare spending, the development of new drugs, and the growing portion of life now spent in retirement.

Evolving Households: The Imprint of Technology on Life (Mit Press)

Business & Money

Greenwood, Jeremy

Economics

The MIT Press

The author explores periods of rapid technological change for coincidences of widening inequality and slowing productivity growth.

The Third Industrial Revolution:: Technology, Productivity, and Income Inequality (Aei Studies on Understanding Economic Inequality)

AEI Press

The posts of Sussex--the Chichester branch, 1250-1840

J. Greenwood

The wood-engravings of John Nash: A catalogue of the wood-engravings, early lithographs, etchings, and engravings on metal

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Wood Lea Press

Limited to 105 copies in this special edition which includes an extra pamphlet by Simon Lawrence of the Fleece Press. An illustrated catalogue of woodcuts from the Omega Workshop. Woodcuts enjoyed a revival as an artistic medium in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the artists--Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, [Dora] Carrington, et al.--associated with the Workshop contributed a number of wood- and linocuts to Omega publications between about 1911 and 1921. This limited edition contains 206 illustrations, 165 of them reproductions of cuts by Fry and 12 others--all of those woodcuts known to exist from these artists but not necessarily made for Omega , including 17 tipped-in reproductions in color. The catalogue itself is compiled by Jeremy Greenwood, who is a partner in the Wood Lea Press and has also compiled catalogues of the wood engravings of John and Paul Nash. Introduction is by Judith Collins, who wrote an earlier book on the Omega Workshops in 1984. Enclosed is also a brochure with 10 prints made directly from original blocks that are only in this special edition. Endpapers and cover paper are based on patterned papers of the Workshop. 148 pages. quarter leather with decorated paper-covered boards, decorated endpapers, brochure, cloth-covered clamshell case.. large 4to..

Omega cuts: Woodcuts and linocuts by artists associated with the Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

The Wood Lea Press

Limited to 800 copies bound thus as the standard edition. Introduction by John Craig. Contains well over 400 engravings, many letters, preparatory drawings and associated illustrations. Some of the engravings and illustrations are in color. Also has a list of prints exhibited by Ravilious at the Society of Wood Engravers. As far as is known, these are the only exhibitions at which Ravilious's engravings were shown during his lifetime. The chronology has, among other things, the titles of books which include wood-engravings. Much additional material. Bibliography. Index. 287+ 1 pages. cloth, slipcase. folio.

Ravilious: Engravings

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