This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-Century Labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the Republican tradition.
Borrowing these ideas, Labor republicans argued that wage laborers were unfree because of their abject dependence on.
In this tradition, to be free is to be independent of anyone else\'s will - to be dependent is to be a slave.
These "Labor republicans" derived their definition of freedom From a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics.
This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-Century Labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the Republican tradition