Christine Frederick
Christine Isobel McGaffey Frederick was an American home economist and early 20th century exponent of Taylorism as applied to the domestic sphere. She conducted experiments aimed at improving household efficiency, as well as arguing for womens vital role as consumers in a massproduction economy. She wrote books on these subjects, the bestknown of which is probably Selling Mrs. Consumer, which offers an early justification for planned obsolescence as a necessary feature of the industrial economy.
Christine Frederick was born in 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Mimi and William R. Campbell, who separated shortly afterwards. In 1894 Fredericks mother married a lawyer, Wyatt MacGaffey, who adopted the girl.
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