White Louis

Biography

Wire of an imperial civil servant far away from the socialist ideas , it is gained gradually by the working cause mainly when he becomes the tutor of the son of the manufacturer of machines Mr. Hallette, between 1832 and 1834. It meets the working class there, and listens to the concerns of them. It is gradually that it was made a reputation of historian lampoonist by publishing in 1841 history the ten years (1830 to 1840) . Journalist as of 1839, it founded the Revue Progress . He published there the same year the Organization of work , work fundamental in which he attacks the anarchistic Concurrence and only recommends a system of associations to lucrative goal controlled by the State the first year.

The social consequences of the Industrial revolution are disastrous according to Louis Blanc. Besides it makes of them long developments in the history of the Revolution of February 1848 . Indeed, that they are the contractors dying vis-a-vis foreign competition (English in particular) or the employees putting their work at the biddings, nothing seems to function in the liberal system initiated since the Revolution of 1789. Indeed, this " let make, leave aller" characteristic of this period returns simply to let die those which do not have anything. However, that is it social contract? Where is the Freedom of that which has neither instrument of work, nor instruction? Where is the equality at those which, seeking to find work, go until selling the arms of their children to the idle industrial oligarchs? Where is fraternity at those which seeing misery in front of their door drive out it with blows of brushes? All these interrogations, White Louis the formula mainly in the catechism of the Socialists since 1848 and brings solutions there deserving an special attention throughout its work.

It is thus necessary to reorganize work but without making the reform project imperative. It is necessary to propose an at the same time productive and social system, encouraging the initiative without making it aggressive. For this purpose, he proposes the creation of a Ministry of Labor as of February 1848 having for main aim to implement the reforms which he proposes in the organization of work . Maybe, in a few words the organization of industrial and agricultural work through associations seeking more to share their efforts with a common aim that to destroy itself mutually. The organization of work also passes by a democratic organization of the credit, left budget of work, making it possible to finance its project.

The private companies, in the system of White Louis, exist in parallel of its system. Only characteristic, more control of the State, more law the labor only the respect of the Human rights. The liberals seek to limit the intervention of the State in their business, that it is as follows: each one having the possibility of best choosing the system being appropriate for its ideology.

Louis Blanc takes again and develops these concepts in the Right to work answer to Mr Thiers (1848).

After the Revolution of February 1848, he is member of the Provisional government of the II {{E}} Republic. He asks the installation of a Ministry of Labor which his/her moderate republican colleagues refuse to him, a simple commission on the workers east creates. Louis Blanc assumes of it the chairmanship unwillingly because without budget thus without capacity. Moreover work of this commission moves away it from the center from the political power all while making it interdependent of the government. Nevertheless associations are created on the model suggested by Louis Blanc. Commission of the workers also named Commission of Luxembourg account many successes in varied fields: installation of associations, conciliations between contractors and paid, bills at the provisional government (formulated by intellectuals, representatives of the contractors and employees of all the horizons). It ends even up weighing a weight such in this incipient Republic that the reaction hastens to make it fall. After the success of the conservatives to the elections of April 23rd, 1848 for the National Assembly It is isolated Executive commission which succeeds the provisional government on May 10th. The preserving majority and in particular Jules Favre try to continue it by holding it responsible for the events of May 15th, 1848. It is the beginning of the exile from where he writes the letters of England and the history of the French revolution , of return under the III° République he will not have any more prestige of antan even if he carries out on the ground everywhere in France a considerable work.

A station of the Subway of Paris and a street of the 10th district of Paris bear its name, as well as a station of the tram of Montpellier and a boulevard limougeaud.

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