Which society needed so we can we have twice as many people working and pay them half.

I think in an alternate timeline in which the washing machine is not invented, we would still send women to work.

The washing machine labour could have been solved with centralising washing as a society, in the same way we centralised childcaring.

The economic forces and the political propaganda were too strong.

>The washing machine labour could have been solved with centralising washing as a society, in the same way we centralised childcaring.

Are you genuinely unaware of the laundry sweatshops in the early 1900s? Have you never even seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

We've done centralized laundry. It was sweatshop work and was pretty terrible for everyone involved. Today we have laundry pickup services, but it's too expensive for most people. Are you willing to pay $40 for a load of laundry? Because that's what you get without sweatshop labor.

Seriously, read up on early 1900s labor practices. The labor laws we have today are written in blood. A lot of women and children suffered gruesome deaths and disfigurement, lifelong illnesses and disabilities.

Spare us the conspiracy theories. Washing machines were invented because they're convenient, not because of "political propaganda". And we've already "centralized" clothes washing, it's called a laundromat.