The Workers' Union

by Flora Tristan

Book Overview

Flora Tristan (1803-44) was a leading nineteenth-century French social theorist and author who influenced the likes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Five years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto, Tristan urged French workers to put aside occupational and social rivalries in order to unite nationwide. Exhorting the workers to act through union (rather than violence) in quest for a livable minimum wage and other benefits,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252075293
• ISBN13: 9780252075292
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"