Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement.
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Robert Owen
Welsh manufacturer and philanthropist
Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. Wikipedia
Born: May 14, 1771, Newtown, United Kingdom
Died: November 17, 1858 (age 87 years), Newtown, United Kingdom
Education: National Art School
Children: Robert Dale Owen, David Dale Owen, and Richard Owen
Parents: Robert Owen and Anne Williams
Spouse: Caroline Dale (m. 1799)
Books
A new view of society and other writings
1813
Le livre du nouveau monde moral
1836
The life of Robert Owen
1857
Observations on the effect of the manufacturing system
Selected works of Robert Owen
A Supplement to the Revolution in Mind & Practice of the Human Race: Also a Copy of the Original Memorial ... which was Presented to the Sovereigns Assembled in Congress at Aix-La-Chapelle, in 1818 ... to which is Added a Discourse Delivered to the Socialists of London
1849
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On January 3, 1825, Robert Owen purchased the town of Harmonie, Indiana, from religious leader George Rapp. Rapp and his followers returned to Pennsylvania, ...
Robert Latham Owen was elected in 1907 as one of the first two United States senators for the state of Oklahoma. He is one of a small group of United States ...
An account of the life and work of Robert Owen, famous social reformer, whose ideas led to the formation of the co-operative movement.
Known as the 'Father of British Socialism', Robert Owen was a textile manufacturer turned social reformer, and an early advocate of utopian socialism…
On this date in 1771, reformer and philanthropist Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Wales. He became known as “a capitalist who became the first Socialist.
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Pioneer of practical socialism A pioneer of practical socialism, he was first manager and then proprietor of the New Lanark mills near Glasgow.