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From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth

From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth

Gourevitch, Alex

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1107033179
ISBN13: 9781107033177
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Dec 8 2014
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These labor republicans derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics. In this tradition, to be free is to be independent of anyone else's will - to be dependent is to be a slave. Borrowing these ideas, labor republicans argued that wage laborers were unfree because of their abject dependence on their employers. Workers in a cooperative, on the other hand, were considered free because they equally and collectively controlled their work. Although these labor republicans are relatively unknown, this book details their unique, contemporary, and valuable perspective on both American history and the organization of the economy.

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