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Louis Blanc, in full Jean-josephcharles-louis Blanc, (born Oct. 29, 1811, Madrid, Spain—died Dec. 6, 1882, Cannes, Fr.), French utopian socialist, noted for his theory of worker-controlled “social workshops.”.

Louis Blanc, (born Oct. 29, 1811, Madrid, Spain—died Dec. 6, 1882, Cannes, France), French utopian socialist and journalist. In 1839 he founded the socialist newspaper Revue du Progrès and serially published his The Organization of Labour , which described his theory of worker-controlled “social workshops” that would gradually take over ...

The French journalist, historian, and socialist politician Louis Blanc (1811-1882) greatly influenced the evolution of French socialism and modern social democracy. Louis Blanc was born on Oct. 29, 1811, in Madrid, where his father was comptroller of finance for King Joseph, Napoleon's brother.

discussed in biography. In Louis Blanc: Early life. …that his most important work, L’Organisation du travail (“The Organization of Labour”), appeared serially in 1839. The principles laid down in that essay, which first brought him to public attention, formed the basis of his subsequent career.

Examining Blanc's Organization of Labor, this article shows how Blanc mobilized democracy to challenge the July Monarchy's exclusionary representative government and its reduction of the “social question” to pauperism.