Housework

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Under the historical concept house work or home diligence refers to the commercial production of products in-house, where the products in turn for their own home or in-house (eg. As food , clothing , household appliances , household goods) are needed.

The house work is basically for personal use , in contrast to the home work (today called home work ), the price work and the wage work . Housework is considered an early stage of commercial activity.

In the last century and occasionally still today, housework is also a term for a subject that is comparable to or corresponds to today's home economics .

literature

  • Thomas Meier: Handicraft, housework, home work. Chronos Verlag, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-905278-07-1 .
  • Wolfgang Linke: Old housekeeping and handicraft in the country. Part 1. The flax processing. Westfalen-Lippe, Landschaftsverband 1982, ISBN 978-3-923432-03-5 .