Monday, October 05, 2015

IT'S EASY TO PROMOTE THE PROTESTANT ETHIC...

if you aren't a puddler.  A puddling furnace was used to create high quality bar iron and puddlers were the men who literally scooped out the iron spheres from the furnaces.  According to Landes (p. 281) this was very tough work:

1 comment:

Ken Hoop said...



somewhat related, shows that feminism now is right-wing capitalism, neoliberalism.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/a-feminism-where-leaning-in-means-leaning-on-others/#more-158243