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Alban De Villeneuve Bargemont

The Vicomte Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemont, born 8 August 1784 at St. Auban and died on 8 June 1850 in Paris , is a French economist and politician. Catholic aristocrat, he denounced the first with Armand de Melun manufacturing operation and was voted the first social laws.

Biography

Auditor at State Council , Prefect Lleida then Namur under the Empire , prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne in the Restoration.

He then turned to the economy. It publishes a course on History of Political Economy in The Catholic University. His book on Christian Economics .

"Since 1841, the Vicomte Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemont which passed the law regulating child labor, as claimed by the Count de Montalembert, another major Catholic aristocrat. Villeneuve is the first Bargemont posing in front of the French Chamber, the labor problem in its full extent (December 22, 1840). While the idea of class struggle is launched in 1843 by Flora Tristan , in his Workers' Struggle . "

He denounced the "state of dependency and neglect in which the company supplies the workers and entrepreneurs to heads of factories ... ease unlimited capitalist speculators left to gather around them whole populations to use the arms of their interest to have, somehow, in discretion, with no guarantee of existence, future moral or physical improvement is given by them, or the public, or society that needs protection. "

"It is interesting to note that prior use of the social question by Karl Marx , that the legitimate rights and traditionalist who first takes the protection of workers . "

References

Christian Political Economy, or inquiry into the nature and causes of pauperism in France and Europe, and ways to relieve and prevent it (3 volumes, 1834). Reissue: Hachette, Paris, 1971. Text online 1 2 3
Biography of 750 representatives in the Legislature May 13, 1849, by two journalists, Pagnerre, Paris, 1848, p. 231.
Jean Dumont, The Church at the risk of history, preface by Pierre Chaunu Institute, Editions de Paris, Les Ulis, 2002 115, note 2.
Jacques Ploncard of Assac, youth have the right to truth, Society of Political Philosophy, Lisbon, 1970, p. 107-108.