OLD-AGE POLICIES AND RATIONALIZATION IN F IRMS - MANAGING AGING WORKERS IN FRANCE IN THE EARLY-20TH-CENTURY

The monarchy created the first retirement funds in France. in the 19th and 20th centuries, many companies, especially in big industry, set u p their own funds with moral and pedagogical aims. Much later, company funds were assigned the objective of helping firms improve productivi ty. Unlike in the United States, these funds seem to have developed in France, until the 1930s, independently of the rationalization of prod uction under Taylorism.