Workers' Union

Name: Workers' Union
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ISBN: 9780252075292

ISBN-10: 0252075293

ISBN-13: 9780252075292

Edition: 1982

Authors: Flora. Tristan, Beverly Livingston, Flora. Tristan, Beverly Livingston

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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 ofThe 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,The Workersrsquo; Unionoutlines the methods for organizing such a union, the goals of the union, and the reason womenrsquo;s rights must be emphasized in forming it. Among Tristanrsquo;s pathbreaking proposals are plans to provide laborersrsquo; children with…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Beverly Livingston has taught at the University of Chicago and Yale University and was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. Among her publications is an article on the French ldquo;Nouveau Romanrdquo; inYale French Studies.



Translator's Introduction


Note on the Translation


The Workers' Union


Preface to the Third Edition


Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


To Working Men and Women



On the Insufficiency of Welfare Societies, Guilds, etc.



How to Consolidate the Working Class



Why I Mention Women



Plan for the Universal Unionization of Working Men and Women


Summary


Appeal to the Workers


Advice to the Workers


To the Bourgeois


Letter and Song by Charles Poncy


The Workshop Marseillaise


The Workers' Union Marseillaise


Project for a Weekly Journal


Selective Bibliography


Index