WORKERS UNION (English and French Edition) - Hardcover

Tristan, Flora

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252009215 ISBN 13: 9780252009211

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1983

Synopsis

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, The Workers’ Union outlines the methods for organizing such a union, the goals of the union, and the reason women’s rights must be emphasized in forming it. Among Tristan’s pathbreaking proposals are plans to provide laborers’ children with increased access to education, to supply safe havens for young people and sick and injured workers, and to approach manufacturers and financiers, including those among the nobility, in order to support such programs.

About this title

About the Author:

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 "Nouveau Roman" in Yale French Studies.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0252009215
• ISBN 13: 9780252009211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 159