Unto This Last: Difference between revisions

'''''Unto This Last''''' is an essay [[Critique of economy|critical of economics]] by [[John Ruskin]], first published between August and December 1860 in the monthly journal ''[[Cornhill Magazine]]'' in four articles.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Radio|first=Sveriges|title=John Ruskin: En brittisk 1800-talsaristokrat för vår tid? - OBS|url=https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1244376|access-date=2021-11-15|website=sverigesradio.se|language=sv}}</ref> Ruskin says himself that the articles were "very violently criticized", forcing the publisher to stop its publication after four months.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Radio|first=Sveriges|title=John Ruskin: En brittisk 1800-talsaristokrat för vår tid? - OBS|url=https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1244376|access-date=2021-11-15|website=sverigesradio.se|language=sv}}</ref> Subscribers sent protest letters, but Ruskin countered the attack and published the four articles in a book in May 1862. The book greatly influenced the [[nonviolent]] activist [[Mohandas Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]]. The book is also cited as an inspiration upon the [[British Labour Party]] in its initial stages, a survey of Labour [[Members of Parliament]] after the party achieved its electoral breakthrough in the [[1906 UK general election]] listing the book as one of their key influences. <ref> Anthony, P.D. (1984), ''John Ruskin's Labour: A Study of Ruskin's Social Theory''. New York: Cambridge.</ref>