More attention was paid to the quality of production in France at the time of Rene Coty. Charles Deschanel was then the financial minister. He stressed that workmanship and quality were more important than quantity for industrial production. It would be necessary to produce quality goods for the international market to compete with those produced in other countries. The French economy needed a larger share of the international market to balance its import and export trade.
French industrial and agricultural production was still inadequate to meet the immediate needs of the people, let alone long-ranged developments. Essential imports had stretched the national credit to the breaking point. Rents were tightly controlled, but the extreme inflation (通货膨胀) affected general population most severely through the cost of food. Food costs took as much as 80 percent of the workers’ income. Wages, it is true, had risen. Extensive family allowances and benefits were paid by the state, and there was full-time and overtime employment. Taken together, these factors enabled the working class to exit but allowed them no sense of security. In this precarious (不稳定的) and discouraging situation, workmen were willing to work overseas for higher wages.
The government was reluctant (勉强的) to let workers leave the country. It was feared this migration of workers would deplete (使减少) the labor force. The lack of qualified workers might hinder the improvement in the quality of industrial products produced. Qualified workers employed abroad would only increase the quantity of quality goods produced in foreign countries. Also the quantity of quality goods produced in France would not be able to increase as part of its qualified labor force moved to other countries.

在瑞内.科蒂时期的法国,人们更加注重产品的质量.Charles Deschanel 时任财政部长.他认为,工业品的工艺和质量远较其产量来得重要.必须生产出高质量的产品,法国货才能在国际市场上与其他国家生产的产品一较高下.法国经济需要更大的国际市场份额,以平衡她的进出口贸易.

法国的工农业生产仍然不能满足人民当前的需要,更遽论长期发展的要求.生活必需品的进口已经超出国家信用至崩溃的边缘.虽然房租受到严格控制,然而由于食品价格的高企,导致极度的通货膨胀严重地影响了全体人民的生活质量.食品支出占了普通劳动者收入的80% .实际上,工资的确是涨了.国家负责支付广大家庭生活的补贴和福利,满负荷和超时工作的现象比比皆是.受这些因素的共同影响,劳工阶层因为缺乏安全感而开始出走他乡.在这种不稳定且前途黯淡的形势下,工人们为了高薪情愿去海外工作.

政府勉为其难地允许工人们离开这个国家.人们担心产业工人的流失会减少劳动力的供应.高素质工人的缺乏将影响工业品质量的改善.在海外就业的高素质工人只可能有助于提高外国产品的质量.并且,法国生产的高品质产品的产量,也不可能随着她的高素质劳工的流失海外而得到提高.