Some Problems in the Development of the Catering Industry During the Seven-Year Plan

The development of catering in socialist society entering the stage of all-out upbuilding of communism is most closely related to the future of housework, and to the living and working conditions of women, who have had the job of doing this work. Engels observed that in primitive society, where private property and the present kind of family did not yet exist, the assignment of housework to women was just as socially necessary an occupation as was the acquisition of food by the men. With the development of the family as an economic unit in society, housework lost its social character: it became a private service; the wohan became the chief aervant, and was isolated from participation in production by society."