FRANCE IN THE AGE OF ORGANIZATION; BERGHAHN MONOGRAPHS IN FRENCH STUDIES; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: CONSTRUCTING A SCIENCE OF ORGANIZATION; Chapter 2: PSYCHOLOGY, MASCULINITY AND THE SOCIAL POLITICS OF ORGANIZATION; Chapter 3: ORGANIZATION GOES HOME; Chapter 4: THE ENGINEER-ECONOMIST AND THE 'SCIENCES OF MAN' IN THE 1930S; Chapter 5: ORGANIZATION IN VICHY FRANCE; CONCLUSION; Appendix: BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Summary
In interwar France, there was a growing sense that 'organization' was the solution to the nation's perceived social, economic and political ills. This book examines the roots of this idea in the industrial rationalization movement and its manifestations in areas as diverse as domestic organization and economic planning. In doing so, it shows how experts in fields ranging from engineering to the biological sciences shaped visions of a rational socio-economic order from the 1920s to Vichy and beyond.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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