CLEP Western Civ II

Answer: E - Louis Blanc succeeded in the getting National Workshops created. While his vision was to create a system of state-supported, collectivist workshops, this is not what occurred. The government agreed to their creation for political reasons but limited their applications out of fear that they would undercut local private industry. Thus, they became a de facto unemployment system, as they were flooded with workers unemployed in the recession of 1847.