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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... alarm, and therefore greater want of employment, than in 1830. It may have been consequently necessary to provide relief on a larger scale; but we firmly believe that such relief might have been given by means comparatively innocuous. It was not the 20th decree, creating the at61iers nationaux, which occasioned the rebellion of June. It was the 19th, --that which guaranteed employment to every citizen, and recognised the right of workpeople to combine. Had not that decree been issued, relief to 1850. Subsistence may be guaranteed: not Employment. 275 the unemployed would have been given, as relief. It might have been subjected to conditions to which none but the destitute would have submitted; and, though subject to these conditions, if tendered as charity, it would have been accepted with gratitude. But the 19th decree converted it into a debt: and the first consequence was to deprive the Government of all power of selection. Lamartine tells us that the greater part of the applicants were idlers and agitators; that the ateliers became deposits of laziness, vagrancy, vice, and sedition. Under the 19th decree this was inevitable. The decree guaranteed employment--not to the diligent or to the well-disposed, but to alL Now, to guarantee subsistence to all, --to proclaim that no man, whatever be his vices or even his crimes, shall die of hunger or cold, --is a promise that in the state of civilisation of England, or of France, can be performed not merely with safety, but with advantage; because the gift of mere subsistence may be subjected to conditions which no one will voluntarily accept: But employment cannot safely be made degrading, and cannot practically be made severe. The latter part of the decree, which was a public encouragement of combinations, aided
| ISBN-13 | 9781154044843 |
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| ISBN-10 | 115404484X |
| Weight | 1.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 In |
| List Price | $32.75 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 458 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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