”Jag sa till mor, att det aldrig kunde vara riktigt att bara arbeta” Diskussioner om hemarbete i det sena fyrtiotalets Sverige

Abstract

In the autumn of 1948, the listening competition Vettigt hemarbete (Judicious Housework) was announced on the Swedish radio. The task was to answer the question "How do you solve your housewife situation?". The following year, Radiotjänst (Swedish radio service) published a book in which they collected some of the letters that had been received. The book was also called Vettigt hemarbete. In addition to listener letters, the book consisted of texts written by so-called experts in the housework field. The material for this survey is the book Vettigt hemarbete. The essay tries to answer the following question: How is homework related to the concepts of objectives and means in Vettigt hemarbete? By answering this question, the author wants to increase the understanding of how one in the project Vettigt hemarbete thought the rationalization of housework would work out and what one hoped to achieve with it.