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Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American engineer, consultant, and author known as an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of time and motion study, and is perhaps best known as the father and central figure of Cheaper by the Dozen.
Cheaper by the Dozen is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, published in 1948.The novel recounts the authors' childhood lives growing up in a household of 12 children.
Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. (March 17, 1911 – February 18, 2001) was an American journalist and author. He co-authored, with his sister Ernestine, the autobiographical bestsellers Cheaper by the Dozen (1948; which was adapted as a 1950 film) and Belles on Their Toes (1950; which was adapted as a 1952 film).
The film follows time and motion study and efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. and his wife, psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth, as they raise 12 children in 1920's Providence, Rhode Island and Montclair, New Jersey. Throughout the film, Frank employs unorthodox teaching methods on his children and the children clash with their parents.
Ernestine Moller Gilbreth was born in New York City on April 5, 1908. She was the daughter of Frank B. and Lillian (Moller) Gilbreth, early scientific management experts and early 20th-century pioneers of time and motion study and what would now be called organizational behavior.
The books detail their upbringing in a large family of 12 children, as well as the time and motion study techniques by which they were raised. In Cheaper by the Dozen, the book details the eventful life of the wealthy Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, in raising a large family. The couple tested and perfected their business ...
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(1917) with Frank B. Gilbreth [102] Motion Study for the Handicapped (1920) with Frank B. Gilbreth [102] The Quest of the One Best Way: A Sketch of the Life of Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1925) The Home-maker and Her Job (1927) Living With Our Children (1928) The Foreman in Manpower Management (1947), with Alice Rice Cook