The conscientious housewife
Around 1900 the American engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) used time and motion studies to analyse factory production processes in an attempt to improve productivity through ‘scientific management’. Christine Frederick (1883-1970) was the first to apply his ideas about efficiency to the home. In her book The New Houskeeping (1913), published in the Netherlands in 1928 under the title De denkende huisvrouw (The Conscientious Housewife), she analysed everyday household