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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825764003321

Autore

Clarke Jackie <1966->

Titolo

France in the age of organization : factory, home and nation from the 1920s to Vichy / / Jackie Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011

ISBN

0-85745-081-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Berghahn monographs in French studies ; ; v. 11

Classificazione

NW 2335

Disciplina

944.081/5

944.0815

Soggetti

Reconstruction (1914-1939) - France

Social structure - France - History - 20th century

Professional employees - France - History - 20th century

Industries - Social aspects - France - History - 20th century

Technocracy

France Politics and government 1914-1940

France Social policy 20th century

France Economic policy 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Constructing a science of organisation -- Organisation and the social question -- Organisation goes home -- Planning and the 'sciences of man' in the 1930s -- Vichy and the myth of technocracy.

Sommario/riassunto

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.