France in the Age of Organization - Factory, Home and Nation From the 1920s to Vichy

Informationen zum Autor Jackie Clarke is senior lecturer in French Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is a specialist in the history of twentieth-century France with a particular interest in questions about work and consumption. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In interwar France, there was a growing sense that organizationA" 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Constructing a Science of Organization Chapter 2: Organization, Psychology and the Social Question Chapter 3: Organization Goes Home Chapter 4: The Engineer-economist and the 'Sciences of Man' in the 1930s Chapter 5: Organization and 'Human Problems' in Vichy France Conclusion Biographical Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Jackie Clarke, Jackie Clarke Clarke
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2011
• EAN: 9780857450807
• ISBN: 978-0-85745-080-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Monographs in French Studies; Berghahn Monographs in French Studies; Berghahn Monographs in French; Monographs in French Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), History: 20th Century to Present; Sociology