Privatization was meaningless if not accompanied by the “cooperative” behavior of those who were expected to labor within the capital order. As such, the unprecedented industrial mobilization of the interwar period would have sent a chill down experts’ spines: instead of working hard for increased production, a great number of workers were doing the exact opposite. Vissering voiced concern: “Th ey demand shorter working hours, without correspondingly improving their work which would permit of intenser production,” and in order to enforce these demands “they moreover frequently strike, which means a fresh drop in production” (Verbatim Record, Brussels 1920, vol. 2, 50).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 793