The Labour-saving House

"The Labour-saving House" by C. S. Peel is a guidebook from the early 1900s that focuses on designing homes to cut down on housework. The book argues that new inventions and smart layouts can save people time and energy doing chores, which makes life better. It talks about how it was getting harder to find people to work as servants and suggests homes should be made so people, especially women, can manage them more easily. The book starts by explaining why labor-saving homes are needed, because there were fewer servants and women wanted more from life. The author points out how important it is to change homes to be more efficient, like using technology and better designs to avoid unnecessary work. She also talks about how important it is for both employers and employees to know about domestic work, which leads into the book's advice and examples of how to set up labor-saving homes.