Alex Gourevitch

From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781107663657
• ISBN-10: 1107663652
• Artikelnr.: 41467642

Autorenporträt

Alex Gourevitch is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He has previously served as an assistant professor at McMaster University, a postdoctoral research associate for Brown University's Political Theory Project, and a College Fellow at Harvard University. Gourevitch is the co-editor of Politics without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations (2007). His work has been published in Political Theory, Modern Intellectual History, Constellations, Public Culture, Philosophical Topics, and the Journal of Human Rights. He has also written for magazines such as Jacobin, Dissent, Salon, The Chronicle Review, N+1, The American Prospect, and Washington Monthly, and he is co-author of the blog The Current Moment.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: something of slavery still remains
1. The paradox of slavery and freedom
2. 'Independent laborers by voluntary contract': the laissez-faire republican turn
3. 'The sword of want': free labor against wage labor
4. Labor republicanism and the cooperative commonwealth
5. Solidarity and selfishness: the political theory of the dependent classes
Conclusion: the freedom yet to come.