Background
BRAY, John Francis was born in 1809 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.
BRAY, John Francis was born in 1809 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.
During a lengthy period of residence in England 1822-1842 he wrote his chief work, Labour’s Wrongs, which owed much to his own experience of working conditions in the printing industry. His argument is in the Ricardian socialist tradition, claiming that the employer takes the whole product of a worker’s labour and returns only a fraction to him as wages. He argued in favour of communal property organised through the medium of corporations, owned and founded by the workers, and issuing money representing labour-time.
Printer, photographer, farmer.