TY - BOOK AU - Clarke,Jackie TI - France in the Age of Organization: Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy T2 - Berghahn Monographs in French Studies SN - 9780857450807 U1 - 944.081/5 PY - 2011///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - HISTORY / Europe / France KW - bisacsh KW - History: 20th Century to Present, Sociology N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgements --; Author’s Note on Translations --; 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450814 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857450814 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857450814/original ER -