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GODIN, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRE (1817–1888)

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GODIN, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:ANDRE (1817–1888) , See also:French socialist, was See also:born on the 26th of See also:January 1817 at Esqueheries (See also:Aisne). The son of an See also:artisan, he entered an See also:iron-See also:works at an See also:early See also:age, and at seventeen made a tour of See also:France as journeyman. Returning to Esqueheries in 1837, he started a small factory for the manufacture of castings for See also:heating-stoves. The business increased rapidly, and for the purpose of railway facilities was transferred to See also:Guise in 1846. At the See also:time of Godin's See also:death in 1888 the See also:annual output was over four millions of francs (£16o,000),and in 1908 the employees numbered over 2000 and the output was over £280,000. An ardent See also:disciple of See also:Fourier, he advanced a considerable sum of See also:money towards the disastrous Fourierist experiment of V. P. Considerant (q.v.) in See also:Texas. He profited, however, by its failure, and in 1859 started the familistere or community See also:settlement of Guise on more carefully laid plans. It comprises, in addition to the workshops, three large buildings, four storeys high, capable of See also:housing all the See also:work-See also:people, each See also:family having two or three rooms. Attached to each See also:building is a vast central See also:court, covered with a See also:glass roof, under which the See also:children can See also:play in all weathers. There are also creches, nurseries, See also:hospital, refreshment rooms and recreation rooms of various kinds, stores for the See also:purchase of groceries, drapery and every See also:necessity, and a large See also:theatre for concerts and dramatic entertainments.

In r88o the whole was turned into a co-operative society, with See also:

provision by which it eventually became the See also:property of the workers. In 1871 Godin was elected See also:deputy for Aisne, but retired in 1876 to devote himself to the management of the familistere. In 1882 he was created a See also:knight of the See also:legion of See also:honour. Godin was the author of Solutions sociales (1871); See also:Les Socialistes et les droits du travail (1874); Mutualite sociale (188o); La Republique du travail et la ref See also:orme parlementaire (1889). See Bernardot, Le Familistere de Guise et son fondateur (See also:Paris, 1887) ; See also:Fischer, See also:Die Familistere Godin's (See also:Berlin, 189o) ; Lestelle, Etude sur le familistere de Guise (Paris, 1904) ; D. F. P., Le Familistere illustre, resultats de vingt ens d'association, 1880–1900 (Eng. trans., Twenty-eight years of co-See also:partnership at Guise, by A. See also:Williams, 1908).

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