Jackie Clarke

France in the Age of Organization

Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between science, culture and politics in interwar France A detailed yet accessible study of France between World Wars 1 and 2 The author offers a reinterpretation of a wide array of published and unpublished sources

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780857450807
• ISBN-10: 0857450808
• Artikelnr.: 33774718

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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