History of Resource Management

By asmithwick
  • 714 BCE

    Hesiod

    Wrote "you should embrace work tasks in their due order, so that your [grain storage] may be full of substance in its season"

  • Pre-Industrial Family in America

    Prior to the Industrial Revolution in America, the family was mainly an economic unit that lived together. Often extended family would also live with a family.
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution

    Changed different influences. Men worked out of the house while women gained power in the household.

  • Ellen Swallows is born

  • The American Woman's Home

    Written by Beecher, a training manual for women on the duties of the home.

  • Womens Laboratory

    Women's Laboratory was established at MIT to continue women's education.

  • Bishop of England

    Wrote to his friend, a new widow, about how to balance her income and expenses

  • New England Kitchen of Boston

    Created by Ellen Richard Swallows,offered cooking demonstrations, instruction on proper housekeeping techniques, and nutritious, science-based meals.
  • The American Home Economics Association

    The American Home Economics Association

    Founded by Ellen Richard Swallows
  • Emergence of the Feminist Perspective

    Emergence of the Feminist Perspective

    In the 1960's the Civil Rights Movement and the dramatic increase of women in the workplace we started seeing a shift in the roles of the home.

  • Sources

    Family Resource Management.

    https://www.aafcs.org/about/about-aafcs
    New York Historical