Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen"
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (744 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555536123 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 428 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Gilbreth team" according to Dr. Bill. Frank and Lillian Gilbreth were the husband and wife consulting team that inspired the book and movie, Cheaper by the Dozen. In fact, there never were a dozen living children. (The second child, a girl, died in childhood from diptheria and a thirteenth was still born. But the Gilbreths always referred to their brood as a "dozen")Fran. A more complex look at the "Cheaper by the Dozen" mother This book was first written as a thesis. It shows. It is very complete with footnotes but unlike many a college thesis, it is very entertaining. It shows just what a remarkable women Lillian Moller Gilbreth was. She was a true feminist in the best sense of the word. This book fills in a lot of holes left by the books by her children.. Excellent bio of a woman well remembered for the wrong thing Gary M. Greenbaum Lillian Moller Gilbreth is well remembered today as the patient mother of "Cheaper by the Dozen". This book makes it clear that this was the least of her attributes. Dr. Gilbreth spent over a half century as one of America's leading engineers. First colloborating with her husband, Frank Gilbreth, she spent the first forty years of he
She continued her career and put each child through college. 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.. 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. 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. 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. Her husband, Frank Gillbreth, died after twenty years of marriage, leaving her to r
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Bridging the contradictory roles of doting housewife, multi-tasking supermom, feminist trendsetter and industrial stateswoman, her life makes for a fascinating study in the transition to modernity. Admired by both Herbert Hoover and Lenin, Lillian Moller Gilbreth was a psychologist and engineer who, along with husband Frank, put a human face on the scientific management movement by emphasizing congenial work environments, ergonomic equipment and production processes, and training and incentive schemes that elicited employee participation in the drive for business productivity. Photos. All rights reserved. The mother of 12 children (immortalized in the classic Cheaper by the Dozen), the perpetually pregnant engi