From slavery to the cooperative commonwealth: labor and republican liberty in the nineteenth century
Auteur :
Gourevitch, Alex
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107663657
Date de publication :
8 déc. 2014
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
1275 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.