Threatened social disorganisation of France. Louis Blanc on the working classes [a transl. of Organisation du travail, pt. 1] with corrected notes, and a refutation of his destructive plan by J. Ward |
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Page 136 - the same laws, and participating in the same advantages. Each member of the Social Atelier will have the right of laying out his salary as he pleases; but the evident economy and indisputable excellence of living in common will not be long in begetting, out of an association of labour, a voluntary association of wants and enjoyments.
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Page 59 - being a town of a medium magnitude between the great seats of industry and commerce, such as Lyons, Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux, and the towns of the third class, and the habits of the workmen being better there perhaps than anywhere else, we do not think that we can select a better example than it presents,
Page 61 - to be closed. Push open the door and advance, if the fetid atmosphere does not make you recoil; but take care, for the uneven floor is neither paved nor tiled, or the tiles are covered with such a thickness of filth that you cannot see them. There are two or three bedsteads mended with pack-thread, which scarcely holds them together; and the frames are worm-eaten and
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Page 16 - and the final stability of the work, by securing property against mortgage. From this, however, they abstained; and France, under the operation of
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| Title | Threatened social disorganisation of France. Louis Blanc on the working classes [a transl. of Organisation du travail, pt. 1] with corrected notes, and a refutation of his destructive plan by J. Ward |
| Author | Jean Joseph Louis Blanc |
| Editor | James Ward (of London) |
| Published | 1848 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Oct 11, 2006 |
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