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From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century

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This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These “labor republicans” derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics. In this tradition, to be free is to be independent of anyone else's will – to be dependent is to be a slave. Borrowing these ideas, labor republicans argued that wage laborers were unfree because of their abject dependence on their employers. Workers in a cooperative, on the other hand, were considered free because they equally and collectively controlled their work. Although these labor republicans are relatively unknown, this book details their unique, contemporary, and valuable perspective on both American history and the organization of the economy.
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    1107663652
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    December 8, 2014
  5. Language
    English
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    5.98 x 0.59 x 8.98 inches
  7. Print length
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"Alex Gourevitch's new book powerfully challenges received understandings of the relationship between liberal and republican ideas and unsettles familiar narratives about the history of American political thought. He shows that republican political theory is not as automatically or easily egalitarian as has often been assumed; that nineteenth-century laissez-faire free labor doctrines themselves made civic and not only liberal claims; and, most importantly and centrally, that those he identifies as 'labor republicans' offered a neglected, fascinating, and distinctively American critique of capitalism and wage labor. From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth is an exciting and highly original work."
Jacob T. Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, McGill University

"This is a mind-opening study of an American movement in which the republican idea of freedom was invoked in support of workers. It reminds us that, traditionally understood, freedom argues not just for an open market and a transparent state, but for employment and workplace conditions that guard against servitude and servility. The book makes for salutary reading in an age of 'business-friendly' government."
Philip Pettit, L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University

"Every once in a rare while, a book comes along with an argument that, once advanced, not only changes how we think but makes you wonder how we ever could have thought anything else. Alex Gourevitch has written such a book … The transformative insight at the heart of [this] book is that in the nineteenth century, in the United States, slavery was not a rhetoric but a reality, which drove some of the most breathtaking innovations in how republicans thought about freedom. And once slavery was abolished, its successor - wage slavery, as it was called - drove even more innovations. What emerges from Gourevitch's treatment is a wholesale reconsideration of the republican tradition, in an utterly novel setting … Once we've read this book and digested its implications, we'll never talk about freedom, republicanism, or domination - not just in the past but in the present - in the same way."
Corey Robin, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center

"Provides a careful examination of labor arguments, uncovering the complex ways advocates 'embraced and recast' republican ideology."
Daniel J. McInerney, The Journal of American History

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This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (December 8, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1107663652
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1107663657
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.59 x 8.98 inches
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  • A reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent presentation of 19th ideas regarding freedom and its politico-economic implications
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    The book reads well. The main argument is that Labor Republicans provided an alternative vision of society to Laissez-faire republicans. Starting with the view that, for labor republicans, freedom means independence of decision-making rather than non-interference in decision making, G. shows how this viewpoint shaped radical political economy throughout the 19th century United States. He starts with the agrarian view that freedom means that everybody owns a piece of land and moved through the century to end with the Knights of Labor. He shows how the conception of freedom as independence of decision-making was reshaped to fit the move toward an industrial economy; ultimately leading to the view that cooperation among individuals in the ownership and running of the mode of production was the way to implement freedom. He also presents the social implications of this view and the demands that KoL placed on individuals and their class consciousness. His final chapter evaluates the previous 19th century developments in the context of today's economics. G. is clear that cooperation, while interesting, leaves aside the important debate markets vs. planning. He also finished by saying that Marx must have borrowed a lot of the ideas of the Labor Republicans with the ideas of wage-slavery and exploitation all present in their framework.
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  • Tyler Champine
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
    Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2017
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    A must read for anyone interested in the history of republicanism, the cooperative movement, and labor struggles in the United States.
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  • Alan Ryan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Account of Neglected Ideas
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    Excellent account of some neglected ideas.
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