French socialists before Marx : workers, women, and the social question in France / by Pamela Pilbeam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pilbeam, Pamela M., 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--France--History--19th century.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen Publishing, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this pioneering and wide-ranging reassessment of early socialist ideas and reforming strategies, Pamela Pilbeam reveals a remarkable period of intellectual creativity and achievement wholly distinct from the post-1870 movement that has invariably formed the starting point for most histories of socialism. The book pulls together and identifies the major issues that preoccupied the early socialists: revolution, religion, education, the status of women, association and work and outlines how socialist ideas developed from a morality-based plural socialism of men and women that sought to smooth away class conflict to a materialist, internationalist socialism that used the rhetoric of revolution and class war.

Contents:

1 Plural socialism

2 The social question

3 Revolutionary inspirations

4 Religion and the early socialists

5 Socialists and education: to repulse the barbarians

6 The "new woman"

7 Association: dream worlds

8 Worker associations before 1848

9 Association: socialist hopes in the Second Republic

10 Association: the conservative reaction in the Second Republic

11 Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-282-92126-6

9786612921261

1-84465-324-2

OCLC:

715185211