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- Title
PRODUCTIVE CO-OPERATION IN FRANCE.
- Authors
Gide, Charles
- Abstract
This article presents information on productive co-operation in France. France is the birthplace of productive co-operation. First, because that form of co-operation is the only form which has developed spontaneously within France. It was in France that this form of co-operation sprang up as the final solution of the social problem, as the breaking of a new era in which a regime of free labor should succeed the wage system, even as the wage system itself had succeeded a regime of selfdom and slavery. It was in France that productive co-operation in 1848 enrolled its legions of pioneers among the workingmen, whose story, if it is less celebrated than that of the Rochdale pioneers, does not relate less heroism. It must not be forgotten, too, that it was the form of productive co-operation indigenous in France which gave rise to a new gospel, and appeared as the star of noble spirits as John Stuart Mill and the Christian socialists of England. Finally, it is in France that productive co-operation has worked itself out in several of the most perfect and most justly celebrated enterprises in the world.
- Subjects
FRANCE; COOPERATIVE societies; SOCIAL movements; SOCIAL problems; ROCHDALE system; SLAVERY; CHRISTIAN socialism
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1899, Vol 14, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1882355