By Emilie Moret Dallet; M. Fabre; Mr and Mrs Prudhommeaux; Aneurin Williams [translator]
London   Labour Co-Partnership Association; Garden City Press
9" by 6" x, 89pp.
A first edition of this translated work on the social innovations of Jean-Baptiste Godin in the French town of Guise.
By Emilie Moret Dallet; M. Fabre; Mr and Mrs Prudhommeaux; Aneurin Williams [translator]

1908 Twenty-Eight Years of Co-Partnership At Guise Being the Second Edition of "Twenty Years of Co-Partnership At Guise." Translated from the French of Madame Dallet, M. Fabre, and M. and Madame Prudhommeaux by Aneurin Williams. With an Introduction by the Right Hon. Thomas Burt, M.P.

London   Labour Co-Partnership Association; Garden City Press
9" by 6" x, 89pp.
A first edition of this translated work on the social innovations of Jean-Baptiste Godin in the French town of Guise.
£40.00
: 0.5kgs / : 832M3

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Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Illustrated, Scarce

In the publisher's original cloth binding. This is an author's presentation copy, with an ink inscription to the front free end paper. Frontispiece depicts Jean-Baptiste Godin (1817-1888). This volume is richly illustrated with photographs of his Familistère. Aneurin Williams (1859-1924), a Liberal Party politician and Joint Honorary Secretary of the Labour Co-partnership Association, translates this work on the social innovations of Jean-Baptiste Godin in the French town of Guise. The trade unionist MP Thomas Burt introduces the book, which was published jointly by Garden City Press and the Labour Co-partnership Association, an “educational, advisory, and propagandist body”. The Familistère or “Social Palace”, a large, multi-purpose housing complex built by Godin, is the main subject of this volume. This was an eighteen-acre site containing the foundry; three residential blocks for workers and their families; a nursery and school; garden allotments and cellars; a communal laundry, swimming pool and theatre; and shops offering near-cost-priced food. In 1880, Godin converted the community into a co-operative society, owned and directed by the workers who lived there. He was influenced by other socialist thinkers of his era, and his activism interested socialist-minded British politicians.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart, with some wear to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine, and a mark to the rear board. The front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, the binding is slightly strained in a couple of places. Pages are bright and clean, apart from the odd spot to the first couple of pages.

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