The right wing of the Provisional Government,…

Continuing pressure from the social reformers pushes the government farther than its bourgeois members really want to go.

The government issues a right-to-work declaration, obligating the state to provide jobs for all citizens.

To meet the immediate need, an emergency-relief agency called the ateliers nationaux ("national workshops") is established on February 28.

Blanc establishes the Commission of the Luxemburg, a kind of economic and social council constructed as a parliament of workers and employers, to discuss common problems and study programs of social reform, but the employers soon desert it.