Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, a Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen"UPNE, 2004 - 415 páginas Readers of Cheaper by the Dozen remember Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) as the nurturing mom who endures the antics of not only twelve children but also an engineer husband eager to experiment with the principles of efficiency - especially on his own household. What readers today might not know is that Lillian Gilbreth was herself a high-profile engineer, and the only woman to win the coveted Hoover Medal for engineers. She traveled the world, served as an advisor on women's issues to five U.S. presidents, and mingled with the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart. Her husband, Frank Gillbreth, died after twenty years of marriage, leaving her to raise their eleven surviving children, all under the age of nineteen. She continued her career and put each child through college. Retiring at the age of ninety, Lillian Gilbreth was the working mother who did it all. Gilbreth's life story - one that resonates with issues faced today by many working women. Lancaster confronts the complexities of how one of the twentieth century's foremost career women could be pregnant, nursing, or caring for children for more than three decades. Yet we see how Glibreth's engineering work dovetailed with her family life in the professional and domestic partnership that she forged with her husband and in her long solo career. The innovators behind many laborsaving devices and procedures used in factories, offices, and kitchens, the Gilbreths tackled the problem of efficiency through motion study. To this Lillian added a psychological dimension, with empathy toward the worker. that allowed the mother to be professionally active if she chose, while the parents worked together to raise responsible citizens. Lancaster has woven into her narrative many insights gleaned from interviews with the surviving Gilbreth children and from historical research into such topics as technology, family, work, and feminism. Filied with anecdotes, this definitive biography of Lillian Gilbreth will engage readers intrigued by one of America's most famous families and by one of the nation's most successful women. |
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Índice
Gone West II | 11 |
Once Upon a Time | 21 |
The Athens of the Pacific | 36 |
In Search of the Strenuous Life | 43 |
PART III | 59 |
Even Quest Makers Change Their Minds | 69 |
A LongDistance Engagement | 80 |
The One Best Marriage | 90 |
Am I a Lady or an Engineer? | 228 |
Counter Cultures for Women | 236 |
The Homemaker and Her Job | 248 |
The Kitchen and the Office | 258 |
PART VI | 271 |
This Home Is for Hoover | 273 |
A DollaraYear Woman in Washington | 280 |
Woman Power | 292 |
Planning a Family | 97 |
Mentioned from the Platform by Taylor | 106 |
PART IV | 121 |
Scientifically Managing New England Butt | 133 |
The Good Exception | 143 |
A Second Dissertation | 152 |
Therbligs and Tonsils | 163 |
The Home Front | 173 |
The Gilbreth Family System | 190 |
Indicting the Stopwatch | 204 |
PART V | 213 |
Here I Stand the Case | 215 |
Professor Gilbreth | 298 |
A Superannuated Bachelor Girl Goes to War | 303 |
As Resilient As a Good Rubber Band | 314 |
PART VII | 323 |
Cheaper by the Dozen | 325 |
Work for the Night Is Coming | 334 |
It Doesnt Take Long to Get Back from Rangoon | 342 |
Archives and Libraries Consulted | 353 |
Notes | 355 |
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Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen" Jane Lancaster Vista previa restringida - 2015 |
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