Pieces. So it works both ways. Lets move on to Christine Fredericks. I want to make sure we talk about the new housekeeping. Ks. Christine frederick herself was it on not the first to hit on this idea of a household engineer. The whole professioncime economics is becoming more expert driven in this period. T thish is in the early 20th 0th ce century Home Economics class. Home economics will be7v . Z taught in schools as a subject. Did any of you take home ec . It the roodsts are in this period. Int its an area that was thought to be just something individual private household things passed ers to on from mothers to daughters. Think of the beacher sisters who were part of this in a way, too. Right . Talking about household management. But Home Economicshome as a field, of a professional domain, where there are experts, creating curricula, is a turn of the century kind of profession. Here again is that is not ristin christine efrederick, but who l somebody who looks a little bit like Chr
Lonization of an area thought to be something individual private households do that were passed on in a rule of thumb way from mothers to daughters. Think of the beacher sisters who were part of this in a way, too, talking about household management. Home economics as a field of profession a professional domain where there are experts creating curriculum is a turn of the century kind of invention. Here again is that is not Christine Frederick but that is someone who looks like Christine Frederick. The start in the late 19th century but take on an expertdriven advice. The new housekeeping efficiency study in home management. Household engineer and professional consultant. One question we might pose here, i think its clear how much frederick is indebted to spun like taylor. Right . But how much has changed in the envisioning of the household from the time of the beacher sisters in the 1860s to this moment . Whats changed and whats remained the same . Nothing is every totally a break with
Century but take on an expertdriven advice. The new housekeeping efficiency study in home management. Household engineer and professional consultant. One question we might pose here, i think its clear how much frederick is indebted to spun like taylor. Right . But how much has changed in the envisioning of the household from the time of the beacher sisters in the 1860s to this moment . Whats changed and whats remained the same . Nothing is every totally a break with the past, we might say. What strikes about you this . She has taken this idea of the Scientific Method and applied it to make it as efficient as possible and saving time in everything way and everything is planned out. At the end i was interested when she threw out this is why this is so important and women are leaving becoming mothers to join the work force and thats slil because housekeeping is so important. That reminded me of the beacher sisters. It was her taking the new methods but keeping the ideal of household keepi
Century. And especially lay consumer culture. We talked about the motor behind the story, and i think we settled on one word. Desire. Desire was the kind of engine with the story. Wanting what you cant have. Always being able to see what is ahead of you that is elusive that youre trying to grasp. And thats what makes things happen in the novel. Remember that carrie is never satisfied. And recall the department store, right . Where he felt as he tells us the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally. We talked a little bit too about the moral of the story. A moral for the 20th ench ri maybe that there is no moral, right . Things happen to people. Good things happen to bad people, right . People arent punished for bad deeds. In fact sometimes like carrie, theyre rewarded. So what he8f kind of Success Story at vik torn period. That victorian ladder of virtue. The changing of fortunes was not the result of strong character or even of planning and preparedness. Think back to th
Who sought to improve industrial efficiency. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. All right. Great. Hello, everybody. As you know, we will take up the topic in janay ring and worth as andrson engineering worth as a person. I put up here the cover of one of Theodore Dreisers novels, and what wee, have been considering is a kind of fictional assault, right . On the victorian moral order. Oks, inre dreiser for naturalistic fiction. In Theodore Dreisers case, in naturalistic fiction. He set his story, as you know, in the booming, bustling town of chicago. And to use chicago as a kind of character in this story, to look busts, thems, the travails of the characters in his novel. Just to summarize where we got we saw the workings of many things. Not just a story, but a kind of commentary on early 20thcentury Century America and especially urban industrial america. We saw the workings of a new economy. The novel espoused as a kind of allegory for capitalism and especially consumer cultu