Paul Devinat
French academic, civil servant and politician (1890–1980)
Ernest Paul Devinat, (2 January 1890, Mâcon — 1 May 1980, Paris) was a French academic, civil servant and politician.[1]
In 1922, Albert Thomas appointed Devinat as head of the International Labour Organization's Employers' Organization Service and they both toured the United States in the winter of 1922/3. They met Edward Filene, a wealthy advocate of scientific management who had founded the Twentieth Century Fund. Filene offered to provide funds for the proposed International Management Institute soon to be established in Geneva.[2]
Works
Selected works:[3]
- 1912 Le Mouvement constitutionnel en Prusse de 1840 à 1847, Frédéric-Guillaume IV et les diètes provinciales, Nogent-le-Rotrou:Daupeley-Gouverneur
- 1923 L'Organisation internationale du travail, Paris: F. Alcan : M. Rivière
- 1927 L'organisation scientifique du travail en Europe
- 1927 Les conséquences sociales de la rationalisation économique
- 1935 La Politique agricole de la France with Henri Garnier
- 1951 La Politique de l'Union française, Paris: Châteaudun
- 1952 Formation de l'Europe
- 1956 Un renouveau franco-vietnamien est-il possible?
References
- ^ "Paul Devinat (1890-1980)". data.bnf.fr. BnF. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ Charles D. Wrege, Ronald G. Greenwood, and Sakae Hata, 'The International Management Institute and Political Opposition to its Efforts in Europe, 1925-1934' Business and Economic History (1987)PDF link
- ^ "Paul Devinat (1890-1980)". data.bnf.fr. BnF. Retrieved 15 May 2023.