Kitchens
Patented: History of Inventions
The Importance of Time and Motion Studies in Domestic Labour
Around 1900, a few home economists start to think about how insights from the factory can be introduced to the domestic realm. A figure that's really important in this discourse is Christine Frederick who introduces these ideas of tailorism to the domestic realms. She also produces famously a lot of motion and time studies for kitchens specifically. And presumably at that time as well, you're starting to get a lot of new labour-saving devices like refrigerators or ovens.
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