Pronoun problem

The passage below is from a book, A People's History of the United States.

In the last sentence of the passage, I cannot figure out what the two underlined “it” stands for. Here’s my answer. The former “it” seems to represent “with the home a haven,” and the latter “new economy.” Can you check it out for me?

It was in the 1820s and 1830s, Nancy Cott tells us (The Bonds of Womanhood), that there was an outpouring of novels, poems, essays, sermons, and manuals on the family, children, and women's role. The world outside was becoming harder, more commercial, more demanding. In a sense, the home carried a longing for some Utopian past, some refuge from immediacy. Perhaps it made acceptance of the new economy easier to be able to see it as only part of life, with the home a haven.