Robert Owen
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Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. He strove to improve factory
Portrait by William Henry Brooke, 1834
Baptism record of Owen in the Newtown Anglican Parish Register
Robert Owen's house in New Lanark, Scotland.
Truck system of payment by order of Robert Owen and Benj Woolfield, National Equitable Labour Exchange, 22 July 1833.
Owenism
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Owenism is the utopian socialist philosophy of 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen and his followers and successors, who are known as Owenites. Owenism aimed for radical reform of society and is
Robert Owen
…fortune in an experimental socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana, as a preliminary for his utopian society. It lasted about two years. Other Owenite communities also failed, and in 1828 Owen returned to London, where he continued to champion the working class, lead in developing co-operatives and…
Robert Owen, after whom Owenism is named
New Harmony, a utopian attempt; depicted as proposed by Robert Owen
Interior view of the Blackfriars Rotunda, where the N.U.W.C. met.
Frances Wright, c. 1825