Georges Friedmann

Who was Georges Friedmann?

Georges Philippe Friedmann, was a French sociologist.

Georges Friedmann was the founder of the sociology of work after World War II. In 1921, after studying industrial chemistry, he entered a teacher training college on the rue d'Ulm, in Paris, France. During the war, he was an intellectual Marxist and close to the communist party. Friedmann devoted the majority of his work to the study of relationships between man and machine in industrial societies in the first half of the 20th century.