Unpaid Labor Archives - HumanProgress

Love Was Harder in Premodern Europe

February 15, 2022

Kitchen Appliances Are Getting More Abundant

November 16, 2021

New Roombas Trained to Dodge Pet Feces

September 09, 2021

The Long Thread of Lessening Labor

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 48: Frederick Douglass

Explore Our Timeline of Slavery's Abolition

February 06, 2019

Is Moral Progress Real or Just a Myth?

January 18, 2019

Growth Is the Ultimate Weapon in Ending Child Labor

November 13, 2018

Free Trade Empowers Women and Tariffs Hurt Them

October 18, 2018

Could Robots Do Our Household Chores Like Laundry?

Robots Can Now Assemble Ikea Furniture

Introducing the New and Improved HumanProgress.org

History's Unfounded Fears Over the Future of Work

Two-in-One Smart Washer-Dryer Laundry Machine Invented

January 08, 2018

What Millennials Should Know About the Soviet Union

December 15, 2017

Soviet Gender Equality and Women of the Gulag

December 15, 2017

An Overview of Global Progress on Child Labor

October 04, 2017

The Economic Empowerment of Women in the Workforce

Markets Are Setting Washerwomen Free

Self-Cleaning Clothes Are on the Way

Gender Gap in Unpaid Labor Is Smallest in Rich Countries

February 23, 2016

Child Labor and the British Industrial Revolution

December 07, 2015

Number of Child Laborers Down by a Third Since 2000

September 23, 2015

Decline of Child Labor: Labor Markets and Family Economies

August 04, 2015