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‘How do we want our society to produce the goods it needs fifty years from now?’ It is the second part of this question which interests me more. What goods does society really need? And what will it need fifty years from now?
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Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) described the life of ordinary French people in his days. — Ed.
Transposed into an English setting, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde, for example. — Ed.
Jog-trotting or ‘jogging’ is definitely not a privilege of the Americans. Professor de Jouvenel’s observation suggests that it is less common in France than in the United States or, for example, in Holland. — Ed.
France produces excellent statistics in this regard. A French elementary schoolteacher of 35 can expect to live until age 76; a French unskilled worker of 35 can only expect to live until 69. See G. Desplanques in Économie et Statistique 49 (October 1973): 3–19. — Ed.
The first British factory act of 1802 did not prohibit the employment of children but only limited the working hours of children under the age of ten in textile works to twelve hours per day! In 1819, employment of children under the age of nine in textile works was completely prohibited; in 1842, employment of children under the age of ten in mines was prohibited as well. The enforcement of these laws, however, left much to be desired. — Ed.
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744–1829), French biologist. — Ed.
That is, at age 6. In France, teaching reading to children in kindergarten is prohibited. — Ed.
There is very little real children’s literature in French (what exists is often translated from other languages). — Ed.
Armand Audiganne, nineteenth century French author, described in particular the conditions of the French workers around 1870. — Ed.
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de Jouvenel, B. (1979). Man and his needs. In: Hofstede, G. (eds) Futures for work. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1645-1_7
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