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The publication is a specialist publication focusing on the analysis of schooling and education activities in the Bata company with regard to the development of inter-war Zlin as a model industrial company town. Zlin can be viewed as a unique (extraordinarily thriving) example, not only of the modernisation of an urban complex, but mostly as a controversial experiment of social reform by the company based on the modernisation of production, in which the issues of education and training of the individual played a major role. These themes are examined as part of the wider socio-economic concept known as “Batism” which is not interpreted as a single attempt to reform social and working relations, but seen as one of the inter-war experiments that satisfactorily achieved social reconciliation.School and educational reform in inter-war Zlin are theoretically examined regarding the programme of attempted modernisation known as the first wave of modernisation and contrasted with what was known as the second wave of modernisation (or “reflexive modernisation” (Giddens) or “the modernisation of modernisation”) (Beck). Particular attention is given to the questions of labour and rationalisation, which were key issues in inter-war social and pedagogical life.