Luxembourg Commission
뤽상부르 위원회
Part of French Second Republic
The Government Commission for Workers set up by the Provisional Government on 28 February 1848, which sat in the Luxembourg Palace until 16 May. Presided over by Louis Blanc with the worker Albert as vice-president, it brought workers' delegates and economists together to survey the labour question and draft a plan for the organisation of labour, but it had no budget or executive power and was abolished right after the events of 15 May.
In depth
Louis Blanc demanded a ministry of labour to guarantee the right to work; the majority, Lamartine above all, refused, and the compromise was a commission with powers of inquiry and consultation only. The commission was a kind of labour parliament of workers' delegates; on its advice the subcontracting practice of marchandage was banned and the working day cut by an hour, to ten hours in Paris and eleven in the provinces. Blanc set up a few "social workshops" financed by the state and run by the workers, while the government kept the National Workshops, a separate public works scheme, under the minister of public works Marie. Workers from the commission founded the Society of United Corporations on 20 May and ran joint lists with the National Workshops in the June by-elections. The French Wikipedia article reports the reading that the majority created the commission as an expedient to ruin Blanc's popularity.