Robert Owen (1771-1858)


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Name (English): Robert Owen
Short name: Robert Owen
Year of birth: 1771
Year of death: 1858
Short Description: "Robert Owen (/ˈoʊɪn/; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He made efforts to improve his factory's working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, and proposed a more collective approach to child rearing, including government control of education. He gained wealth in the early 1800s as an investor and then manager of a textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland. He had trained initially as a draper in Stamford, Lincolnshire and worked in London before relocating aged 18 to Manchester and textile manufacturing. In 1824, he moved to America and invested most of his fortune in an experimental socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana, as a preliminary model for Owen's Utopian society. It lasted about two years; other Owenite Utopian communities likewise failed. In 1828, Owen returned to London, where he continued to champion the working class, lead the development of cooperatives and the trade union movement, and support the passage of child labour laws and free co-educational schools." - (en.wikipedia.org 29.08.2021)
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[Last update: 2021/08/29]