The Right to Work

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Excerpt from The Right to Work: An Essay Introductory to the Economic History of the French Revolution of 1848The French Revolution of 1848 differed funda mentally from that inaugurated by the meeting of the States General in 1789. Superficial resem blances between the two movements-are obvious. Both began with a demand for political reform, both resulted primarily in' the abolition of monarchy and the establishment of a republic both ultimately issued in the erection of a Napo leonic Empire, liberal in form but in substance despotic. Here, however, the parallelism ends. The first French Republic derived its inspira tion not from Rousseau' s Discours cur l'origine dc l'inégalité but from his Central social. The political Sovereignty of the People, not their economic emancipation, was its watchword. The driving power behind the Revolution of 1848 was, on the contrary, the clamorous demand of the Parisian ouvriers for the organization of industry by the State. The prophet of the new movement was louis Blane. It found its 'apotheosis in the Ateliers nationaux.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.