home economics

Examples of home economics in the following topics:

• The Role of Women in the Household

  • Homemaking is a mainly American term for the management of a home, and is otherwise known as housework, housekeeping or household management; it entails the overseeing of the organizational, financial, day-to-day operations of a house or estate, and the managing of other domestic concerns.
  • In both the U.S. and Canada, a person in charge of homemaking, who isn't employed outside the home, is often called a "homemaker," a gender-neutral term for a housewife or a househusband.
  • Housework is not always a lifetime commitment; many people, for economic or personal reasons, eventually return to the workplace.
  • In high school, courses included cooking, nutrition, home economics, family and consumer science (FACS) and food and cooking hygiene.

• The Status of Women

  • They continued to be relegated to the home and domestic spheres and were unwelcome in political and economic contexts.
  • Whig political theorists argued that men's independence, based on land ownership, freed them to vote, and because women were dependent on their husbands, sons, and fathers, they were unable to behave independently in the political and economic realms.
  • Since women were dependent on men and did not own land, they were not considered political or economic equals after the Revolution.

• "Poor Whites"

  • Wetherington (2005) argues that the plain folk (of Georgia) supported secession in the name of their families, homes, and notions of white liberty.
  • During the war, the established patriarchy continued to control the home front and keep it functioning, even though growing numbers of plain folk joined the new wartime poor.
  • Before the war they had become more active in the cotton and slave markets, but overall they remained unwilling to jeopardize their self-sufficiency and the stability of their neighborhoods for the economic interests of planters.
  • First and foremost, they sought to protect hearth and home from Yankee threats.
  • Wetherington reports that although enough men remained at home to preserve the paternalistic social order, there were too few to prevent mounting deprivation.

• The Middle Classes

  • Many middle-class farmers lived in a style of home known as saltbox houses.
  • Migration, agricultural innovation, and economic cooperation were creative measures that preserved New England's yeoman society until the 19th century.
  • Economic patterns of the middle class in the mid-Atlantic region were very similar to those in New England, with some variations for the ethnic origins of various immigrant communities.
  • Saltbox-style homes of the middle class became popular in New England after 1650.
  • Differentiate between the economic activities of the middle classes of the New England, mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies

• The Panic of 1819

  • The Panic marked the end of the economic expansion that had followed the War of 1812 and ushered in new financial policies that would shape economic development.
  • It was made worse, however, by land speculation and poor banking practices at home.
  • The inflated economic bubble burst in 1819, resulting in the Panic of 1819.
  • President Monroe, interpreting the economic crisis in narrow monetary terms, limited governmental action to economizing and ensuring fiscal stability.
  • States, too, attempted to aid those faced with economic hard times by passing laws to prevent mortgage foreclosures so buyers could keep their homes.

• The Family Economy: Women and Children

  • The term Family Economy can be used to describe the family as an economic unit.
  • The family economic unit is dependent on the specialized labor of family members.
  • Goods were produced not only for home consumption but to sell and trade in the market as well.
  • During the post-industrial stage the family as an economic unit changed.
  • In Politics, Aristotle described two separate spheres in Greek society, the home (oikos) and the city (polis).

• Conclusion: An Industrializing Economy

  • The early nineteenth century in the United States saw the rapid rise in industry, which had profound economic and social effects.
  • As American economic life shifted rapidly and modes of production changed, new class divisions emerged and solidified, resulting in previously unknown economic and social inequalities.
  • By the 1830s, many urban centers had become home to widespread poverty, crime, and disease.
  • The profound economic changes sweeping the United States led to equally important social and cultural transformations.
  • Five Points was home to a mix of recent immigrants, freed slaves, and other members of the working class.

• The Transition to Peacetime

  • Following the war, the U.S. was largely able to maintain economic growth and resist inflation.
  • The result was a mass consumer spending spree, with a huge and voracious demand for new homes, cars, and housewares.
  • Increasing numbers enjoyed high wages, larger houses, better schools, more cars and home comforts like vacuum cleaners, washing machines—which were all made for labor-saving and to make housework easier.
  • Consumerism represented one of the consequences (as well as one of the key ingredients) of the postwar economic boom.
  • Differentiate between economic conditions of the depressed 1930s and the prosperous 1940s

• Women in the Republic

  • In the new Republic, women were legally, economically, and socially subordinated to men.
  • Married women’s status as femes covert did not change as a result of the American Revolution, and wives remained economically dependent on their husbands.
  • Therefore, men could now work jobs that produced goods or services while their wives and children stayed at home.
  • The ideal woman became one who stayed at home and taught her children how to be proper citizens.
  • Nevertheless, many women of the time did work outside the home.

• Clintonomics

  • Clintonomics refers to the economic policies of United States President Bill Clinton during the 1990s.
  • "Clintonomics" refers to the economic policies of United States President Bill Clinton during the 1990s, as well as the economic policies supported by his staff.
  • According to American political scientist Jack Godwin, Clintonomics was more than a set of economic, fiscal, and monetary policies: it was a governing philosophy with political and economic elements, which routinely appropriated nominally Republican and Democratic ideas.
  • In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States, and during his presidency (1993 to 2001), he implemented several economic reforms.
  • During the Clinton years, more people owned homes than ever before in the country’s history (67.7 percent).