France in the Age of Organization

Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-091-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

Reihe: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Jackie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

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

Über Autor(innen)

Clarke, Jackie
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.