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Warren in New York, 1830
During the week of July 17, 1830, the “equal exchange of labor for labor” dominated the pages of both the Free Enquirer and the New York Sentinel and Working Man’s Advocate. Josiah Warren had two […]
Year: 2007
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William Bailie, “Josiah Warren” (New Harmony Movement)
William Bailie, “Josiah Warren,” in George B. Lockwood, The New Harmony Movement, New York: Appleton, 1905. CHAPTER XXI JOSIAH WARREN[1] “A remarkable American, Josiah Warren.” —JOHN STUART MILL. AMONG the most remarkable characters attracted to […]
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Resource on British labor periodicals
Dr. Detlev Mares has posted a number of pdfs of “Source material on British popular radicalism (1864-1886).” There are some partial periodical indexes, plus a number of other resources. I ran across it looking for […]
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Equitable Commerce bibliography and miscellany
For your education, edification, and amusement: Josiah Warren and Equitable Commerce: A Bibliography A Work-in-Progress: I currently have most of my notes from 1821 to about 1853 incorporated into this sprawling bibliography+, which includes the […]
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stupid search engine tricks
Specific searches get specific results. Right? It depends, actually. Here are a couple of examples: I was searching for a particular edition of one of Josiah Warren’s works, the full title of which is, believe […]
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Josiah Warren’s stereotype-plate patents
Josiah Warren’s 1830 “Reduction in the Cost of Printing Apparatus” described one of his attempts to make the power of the press widely available. An 1846 patent (#4479) issued for “Improvement in Compositions for Stereotype-Plates” […]
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How NOT to Read Josiah Warren
[The following note comes from David Ames, Robinson Crusoe’s Money (1876, pages 59-60). I include in here for the specimen notes, both of which were new to me, and for the hints about E. D. […]
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William Pare on equitable commerce
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] William Pare’s “Equitable Villages in America,” a lecture from 1854, is a particularly good short treatment of the system of “equitable commerce” proposed and practiced by Josiah Warren. Pare never […]
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The Dual Commerce Association, Boston, 1859
One of the things that is becoming clearer from continuing research into the practical history of mutualism is that there were lots of small experiments in, and local enthusiasts for, equitable commerce and mutual currency. […]
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The Big Time, at last!
Just recently, in a Wikipedia talk-page debate about the significance of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left, the True Intentions of the Agorists, etc., someone asked the interesting, if slightly incoherent question: Why aren’t “Shawn […]