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.