Domesticating efficiency: Lillian Gilbreth's scientific management of homemakers, 1924-1930

Signs

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 633-675

  Graham, Laurel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/495368     Document Type: Review

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