A review by papidoc
Cheaper by the Dozen by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Frank B. Gilbreth

5.0

Cheaper By The Dozen is a biographical account of experiences in the lives of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, and their 12 children. Frank and Lillian were two prominent time-and-motion scientists/consultants in the early days of the scientific management movement. Written by two of their children, this is an often humorous and occasionally instructive account of life with the 14 members of the Gilbreth family in the early days of the twentieth century. As efficiency experts, Frank and Lillian invented the "Therblig" (look at it backwards), units of human movement which they believed could be scientifically combined to make human movement in task accomplishment more efficient and less costly. The accounts of their intervention to make tonsillectomies more efficient, or to improve their bricklayer's efficiency, or many other such experiences are hilarious!