The Industrial Revolution reduced women's agency by separating work from the household and removing the prior domestic context of economic production.

“I've argued that actually relative to in some respects the Medieval Era and women actually lost agency with industrialization and everything that followed in terms of feminist activism has been response to that radical disempowerment that happened with industrial modernity”

The Industrial Revolution marked the most significant turning point in human history, fundamentally altering economic growth and how people live and work.

“That's absolutely how big it is in my mind and it makes human history much simpler. If you divide it into two parts, before and after the Industrial Revolution.”