From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century

by Alexander H. Gourevitch and Dr Alex Gourevitch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107663652
• ISBN13: 9781107663657
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"