Forging harmony in the social organism: Industry and the power of psychometric techniques

6See, e.g., Karin Priem and Geert Thyssen, ‘Fragmented Utopia: Luxembourgian Industrialists, Intellectual Networks and Social-Educational Reforms between Tradition and Avant-Garde’, Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung 19 (2013): 106–26; Nadine Schmitz, ‘Le paternalisme d’Émile Mayrisch’ [The Paternalism of Emile Mayrisch], in Terres Rouges: Histoire de la Sidérurgie Luxembourgeoise [Red Earth: History of the Luxembourg Steel Industry], ed. Charles Barthel and Josée Kirps (Luxembourg: Ministère d’Etat, Ministère de la Culture, mediArt, 2011), 104–53. 7This study was carried out within the framework of the research project Fabricating Modern Societies: Industries of Reform as Educational Responses to Societal Challenges (ca. 1880– 1930) funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR). FAMOSO focuses on the historical importance of industrial entrepreneurship in formal and non-formal education in industrialised societies. Its primary research objective is to analyse a variety of reforms pursued by captains of industry that have been termed ‘progressive’ and are assumed to have had an educational quality and purpose. The project also wishes to investigate the kinds of interests and societal challenges and risks they intended to meet, and focuses on working and lower-middle-class adults, children and youth. In particular, it methodically studies these reforms as interconnected and key contributions to the industry and associated intellectual networks (principal investigator: Prof. Dr Karin Priem; collaborators: Dr Geert Thyssen, Dr Frederik Herman, Dr Klaus Dittrich, and, previously, Dr Enric Novella).

6See, e.g., Karin Priem and Geert Thyssen, ‘Fragmented Utopia: Luxembourgian Industrialists, Intellectual Networks and Social-Educational Reforms between Tradition and Avant-Garde’, Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung 19 (2013): 106–26; Nadine Schmitz, ‘Le paternalisme d’Émile Mayrisch’ [The Paternalism of Emile Mayrisch], in Terres Rouges: Histoire de la Sidérurgie Luxembourgeoise [Red Earth: History of the Luxembourg Steel Industry], ed. Charles Barthel and Josée Kirps (Luxembourg: Ministère d’Etat, Ministère de la Culture, mediArt, 2011), 104–53. 7This study was carried out within the framework of the research project Fabricating Modern Societies: Industries of Reform as Educational Responses to Societal Challenges (ca. 1880– 1930) funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR). FAMOSO focuses on the historical importance of industrial entrepreneurship in formal and non-formal education in industrialised societies. Its primary research objective is to analyse a variety of reforms pursued by captains of industry that have been termed ‘progressive’ and are assumed to have had an educational quality and purpose. The project also wishes to investigate the kinds of interests and societal challenges and risks they intended to meet, and focuses on working and lower-middle-class adults, children and youth. In particular, it methodically studies these reforms as interconnected and key contributions to the industry and associated intellectual networks (principal investigator: Prof. Dr Karin Priem; collaborators: Dr Geert Thyssen, Dr Frederik Herman, Dr Klaus Dittrich, and, previously, Dr Enric Novella).