GODIN (Jean-Baptiste André). Social solutions. Paris, Le Che - Lot 60

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GODIN (Jean-Baptiste André). Social solutions. Paris, Le Che - Lot 60
GODIN (Jean-Baptiste André). Social solutions. Paris, Le Chevalier, Guillaumin et Cie; Brussels, Office de publicité, 1871. In-8, long-grained red half-maroquin, smooth spine decorated with double gold fillets, speckled edges, green printed cover (Modern binding). Utopia, cat. BnF, pp. 214-215. Original edition, decorated with figures on wood in the text and 8 folding plates, including a lithographed view of Familistère, its outbuildings and its manufacture. Main work by Godin (1817-1888), a journeyman locksmith, inventor of cast iron stoves and founder of the Familistère de Guise. The author explains his social doctrine, inherited from Fourier, criticizes the model of workers' housing estates designed by the industrialists of the Second Empire and gives a full description of the construction and operation of his "Social Palace": The Familistère had a nursery, its own schools, mixed, and a complementary course where, after primary school, the best pupils continued their studies until the age of fifteen or sixteen. At the nursery school in particular, in accordance with Fourier's doctrine, an effort was made to make the teaching attractive. The Familistère also had a library of three thousand volumes, a swimming pool, and was surrounded by a park and vegetable gardens. Numerous celebrations were held throughout the year, such as Children's Day and Labour Day. ...] In 1882, about 2,000 families lived in the three buildings. ...] As for the factory, which originally employed 1,200 workers, 1,600 in 1900, 2,500 in 1926, it had, in the spirit of Godin, to distribute the profits fairly and ensure the constant transmission of social property to the hands of the active workers, thus achieving the association of capital and labour (Maitron).A well-bound copy, bearing a signed copy of the forged title: To Mr. Glatigny; no doubt the Norman poet and comedian Albert Glatigny (1839-1873). Trace of wetness at the foot of the first 7 notebooks.
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