5. The Rights to Equal Work Opportunity and to Assistance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD xiii
4. INTRODUCTION: BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION AND POPULAR ACTIVITY xv
5. THE REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR xxxiii
6. THE PARISIAN SECTIONS (from a 1790 map) xxxiv
7. Historical Table of the Parisian Sections May 21, 1790-19 Vendémiaire, year iv xxxv
8. I POPULAR MASSES AND MILITANT SANS CULOTTES: THEIR ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COMPOSITION
9. 1. The Popular Consciousness of Social Antagonisms 1
10. 2. Statistical Data 25
11. II THE SOCIAL ASPIRATIONS OF THE PARIS SANS CULOTTES
12. 1. From the Right to Existence to “Equal Incomes" 47
13. 2. From “Equal Incomes” to Restrictions on Property Rights 52
14. 3. The Sans-Culottes and Commercial Capital 64
15. 4. Popular Fiscal Law 72
16. 5. The Rights to Equal Work Opportunity and to Assistance 81
17. III THE POLITICAL INCLINATIONS OF THE PARISIAN SANS-CULOTTES
18. 1. Popular Sovereignty 95
19. 2. The Control and Recall of Elected Officers 106
20. 3. The Permanence and Autonomy of the Sections 118
21. 4. Insurrection 128
22. IV POPULAR POLITICS IN ACTION
23. 1. Publicity, "The People's Protector ״ 135
24. 2. Unity as a Guarantee of Victory 144
25. 3. Violence 158
26. V THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE PARIS SANS CULOTTES
27. 1. The Sectional Assemblies 163
28. 2. Sectional Committees and Their Officers 179
29. 3. From Popular Societies to Sectional Societies 193
30. VI DAILY LIFE AMONG MILITANT SANS CULOTTES 223
31. CONCLUSION: ON THE POPULAR MOVEMENT AND REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT: A SUMMARY OF POLITICAL CONTRADICTIONS 251
32. INDEX 265