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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
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.
