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John Francis Bray, 1809-1897.

American expatriate in England, early Ricardian Socialist.

Originally from Oregon, John Francis Bray moved to England in 1822, living there for the next twenty years, working as a printer.  Bray's principal worker is Labour's Wrongs (1839), written at the bginning of the Chartist agitation.  Bray turned to the Ricardian labor exploitation thesis, and recommended the setting up of worker co-operatives in a communal property system.

 

  

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Major Works of John Francis Bray

  • Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy, or the age of might and the age or right, 1839 [bk] [pdf]
  • Government and society considered in relation to first principles, 1842
  • God and Man a Unity, and All Mankind a Unity: A basis for a new dispensation, social and religious, 1879 [bk]
  • A Voyage from Utopia, written ?, pub. 1957.
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