Femmes & taylorisme : la rationalisation du travail domestique

Institutional entrepreneurs and legitimation strategies: The case of personal hygiene in France from 1880 to 1980

“…These infrastructure investments were rolled out in tandem with instructional vectors that co-engaged several institutional entrepreneurs. The state used schools and training centres to deliver home economics instruction to women, which was converted to a more science-led management of women’s work from the 1920s onward (Clarke, 2005; Henry, 2003). As household appliances became democratized and homes became spatially functionalized, the norms dictating standards of cleanliness became more demanding, and mothers were recast as head of the family’s health, which meant they were tasked with instilling the new good hygiene norms into their children.…”

Entrepreneurs institutionnels et stratégies de légitimation. Le cas de l’hygiène corporelle en France de 1880 à 1980

“…Parallèlement à ces investissements d’infrastructure sont élaborés des dispositifs d’apprentissage, à travers lesquels collaborent plusieurs entrepreneurs institutionnels. L’Etat dispense à travers ses écoles et centres de formation un enseignement ménager aux femmes, que l’on convertit à partir des années 1920 aux principes de la rationalisation domestique (Clarke, 2005 ; Henry, 2003). Alors que se développe l’électroménager et la spécialisation fonctionnelle des espaces, les normes de propreté se font plus exigeantes et les mères sont présentées comme responsables de la bonne santé de leur famille, chargées d’inculquer à leurs enfants les nouvelles normes de l’hygiène.…”

Introduction: Feminist Domesticities

“…The latter was a professional organisation working for the adoption of Taylorist principles across a range of industrial sectors and which remained ambivalent as to whether the domestic sphere should qualify as such. 13 In 1928 Bernège authored Si les femmes faisaient les maisons, a polemical intervention into the government's July 1928…”