An End to Poverty?: A Historical DebateIn the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all citizens could be protected against the hazards of economic insecurity. In An End to Poverty? Gareth Stedman Jones revisits this founding moment in the history of social democracy and examines how it was derailed by conservative as well as leftist thinkers. By tracing the historical evolution of debates concerning poverty, Stedman Jones revives an important, but forgotten strain of progressive thought. He also demonstrates that current discussions about economic issues—downsizing, globalization, and financial regulation—were shaped by the ideological conflicts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
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... division of labour, competition, opening up of new markets, 'inventions' and Malthusian 'struggle for existence'. It is Hobbes' bellum omnium contra omnes [the struggle of all against all] and is reminiscent of Hegel's Phenomenology in ...
... division of labour and the expansion of the market meant that no person's employment could be considered wholly secure . In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , as the development of this market became ever more extensive , shifts ...
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Contents
1734 | |
1747 | |
The Reaction in Britain | 1790 |
The Reaction in France | |
the Proletariat and the Industrial | |
The Wealth of Midas | |
Resolving The Social Problem | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |