Ernestine gilbreth carey biography of michael

American author

Ernestine Moller Gilbreth Carey^[1] (née Gilbreth; April 5, 1908 – November 4, 2006) was an American writer.

Early life and education

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 third oldest of twelve children (eleven of whom lived to adulthood), Gilbreth grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, in an unconventional household.^[2]

Frank Gilbreth suffered a fatal heart attack on the eve of Ernestine's high school graduation, which delayed Ernestine's college plans by a year, as the family's finances dictated that her mother return to work immediately, carrying on the work she and her husband did as industrial/management consultants.^[2]

In 1929, Gilbreth gra