phalanstery

phalanstery englanniksi

1. An association or community organized on the plan of (w), with living space divided hierarchically and higher pay for those carrying out unpopular tasks.

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2. (RQ:James Bostonians)

3. The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.

4. 2005, Andrew Loman, ''"Somewhat on the Community-System": Representations of Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne'', Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page xxiv,

When Hollingsworth and Priscilla retreat to a cottage at the end of the novel, they are spurning not only reformatories and phalansteries but also boarding-houses, tenements, and hotels.