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Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play was a French mining engineer, trained at the École Polytechnique and later professor at the École des Mines. Frédéric Le Play is best known as the leader of the Christian socialist movement.
In 1856, Le Play founded the Société d'économie sociale (which, since 1881, has published the journal La réforme sociale, named after Le Play's famous 1864 manifesto). Le Play ought to be regarded as a pioneer in the social-survey method, as exemplified in his famous series of studies on the working classes (1855, 1857-85). In his analysis of social structures, he perceived the solidaristic "family" as the main unit of concern. A deep pessimist of the social impact of the industrial revolution, Le Play advocated legal and social reforms that would encourage a "family-like" relationship between capital and labor on the factory floor.
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