1906-1939: Industrialized Domesticity

摘要

At the start of the 20th century, the house was subject to rigid production methods and logics of efficiency, scalability and quantification characteristic of industrialization. Responding to technological advancements brought on by Fordism outside imperatives like the housing shortage following WWI, and the scientific methods of Taylorism, the house became mass-produced, prefabricated, and pre-packaged. At the same time, the process of industrialization was not limited to the house, it also affected the qualities of domesticity more directly. The concept of home economics was established in the 1840s by Catherine Beecher and then further professionalized in the early 20th century by the formation of the American Home Economics Association. It became the management of the household, taking what was once thought of as the private realm of women and children and subjecting it to the efficiencies of the market.