The Third Republic Defended
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
I The Counterrevolution of Social Science
Le Play: Social Science and Bourgeois Reform
Political Dimensions of Social Science:
The Société d’économie sociale
“Fresh Troops” for the Class Struggle
Sociology and the Social Question
II Emile Cheysson and the Ideology of Social Engineering
Apprenticeship: Manager of Men
From Marketplace to Workplace
Class Struggle and Social Reform
Home and Hearth
The Politics of Social Economy
III Profit Sharing, or the Wages of Virtue
Edme-Jacques Leclaire: Utopian Capitalist
Charles Robert: Apostle of Profit Sharing
The Ideology of Profit Sharing
How Profit Sharing Worked
IV Doing Well by Doing Good: The Politics of Paternalism
Corporate Production and Social Machinery
Capital, Labor, and the State
Real Estate and the Social Question: Working-class Housing
Social Health: The Alliance d’hygiène sociale
Low Road and High Road: The Comité de defense et de progrès social and the Musée social
V Solidarism: In Search of the Middle Road
The Prehistory of Solidarism
The Contradictions of Social Liberalism
Every Man a Capitalist:
Cooperation and Association
Getting Together : Mutualism and Solidarist Ideology
VI The Social Economy of Popular Education
Social Education: A Question of Class
Revolutions in Consciousness:
Universités populaires
Evenings Well Spent: Cours d’adultes and conférences populaires
VII Accumulating Mental Capital
Busy Hands: Gustave Salicis and the Ideology of Manual Training
Work and Study: Schools for Production
Conclusion
Index