Corporations Républicaines
The Revolutionary Idiom of Parisian Workers in 1848
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William H Sewell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-203 |
| Publication date | 1979-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500012810 |
| OpenAlex | W2139964551 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
When the insurrection of February 1848 chased Louis-Philippe from the throne and brought a provisional republican government to power, the Parisian workers who had made the insurrection suddenly found themselves at the center of the political stage. As the heroes and victors of the revolution, they immediately won important concessions: the declaration of the right to work (the 'droit au travail'), the opening of the National Workshops, and the establishment of the Luxembourg Commission-a body composed of representatives of all the capital's trades, chaired by the socialist theorist Louis Blanc, which was to discuss the organization of labor and make proposals to the government. The workers responded to this revolutionary situation with a monumental outpouring of words and action, attempting to construct a new social and political order based on labor and its rights. In this paper I shall try to describe and interpret one prominent feature of the workers' projects for revolutionary transformation: their use of language and of organizational forms that were apparently borrowed from the corporate system of the old regime
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2017 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |