What Is Labor Republicanism?

Bhut: To understand labor republicanism, in this conception of freedom that you're talking about, we have to talk about the broader history of republicanism. How was it that freedom guaranteeing situations emerged alongside slavery, not as an accident, but that they emerged as a necessity? Bhut: The idea is this, it gets its name from the ancient republics, but really there are three different things that are republicanism. And then those ideas develop over time, up until the late nineteenth century, which is what i look at.