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3.16
As the AACP began to meet in October 1948, the U.S., utilizing the BLS, was invited to
undertake a comprehensive sector survey of French industry. The survey included 19 industries, 50 companies,
and 120 plants with employees ranging from less than 50 to more than 10,000. Invited to attend the sector
surveys were plant owners, managers, engineers, and economists, the latter from both industry and government.
The sector surveys through this wide participation of government, industry, and labor, immediately gained a
broad consensus despite the fact that the more comprehensive survey results pointed to a wider range of
deficiencies in the approach of French industry to optimal manufacturing technology. See Appendix 1 for a
summary of the findings.
3.17
The French planning period for their Productivity Drive and organization was longer than in
the U.K., due to their decision to create a comprehensive Productivity Center structure and numerous
decentralized sector and regional organizations.
3.18
As sector surveys were continued in Austria, Germany, and other European nations, and as
the first Productivity Team reports defined problem areas needing U.S. technical support, Marshall Plan staff
elaborated a comprehensive network of U.S. technical support services which expanded in number from the
original six to nine and finally to a total of 12 separate TA aids.
3.19
With the first initiatives undertaken in the U.K. and France, less comprehensive sector
investigations were found necessary in Austria, Germany, Belgium and other countries. The rapid sequence
of acceptance of Productivity Drive priorities, plans, and programs by the U.K. and France proved to be strong
incentives for other European countries to follow suit. In Marshall Plan staff meetings with high level
government and industry officials in remaining Western European nations there was a consensus that
productivity deficiencies in the U.K. and France could not differ much from their own. Bi-lateral discussions
moved quickly into the forming of programs parallel to those of the U.K. and France. In many cases bi-lateral
agreements were reached in a few weeks, to be followed later by Parliamentary decrees formalizing the
Productivity programs. Each new country program was tailored in terms of Center structure, staff, and
program emphasis, to conditions in each nation and the relationships between government, industry, and
labor."
6/
ECA, Industrial Productivity Program in EAP Countries, Washington, D.C., May 1, 1950.
7/
Jean Fourastie, "Towards Higher Labour Productivity in the Countries of Western Europe,"
International Labour Review, April 1953.
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