Robert Owen and his Legacy

Robert Owen and his Legacy

Author: Chris Williams

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0708324444

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A radical thinker and humanitarian employer, Owen made a major contribution to nineteenth-century social movements including co-operatives, trade unions and workers' education. He was a pioneer of enlightened approaches to the education of children and an advocate of birth control.


Robert Owen

Robert Owen

Author: Ian L. Donnachie

Publisher: John Donald

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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The hagiography generated by his disciples did neither his name nor reputation much good, since they transformed the 'Social Father' of their movement into the 'Father of Socialism', a sobriquet that ill fits him, yet it sticks to this day. Ian Donnachie's study is the first full biography of Owen for over fifty years."--BOOK JACKET.


Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark

Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark

Author: Ophélie Siméon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 3319642278

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This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early socialism in Britain. Drawing from previously unpublished archival sources, this study shows that New Lanark was not merely on the receiving end of Owen’s innovative brand of industrial paternalism, but also acted as a major source of inspiration for many aspects of his social system, including his desire to remodel society along communitarian lines. This book therefore reaffirms the centrality of New Lanark as the cradle of socialism in Britain, and provides a contextualised, social history of Owen’s ideas, tracing direct continuities between his early years as a paternalistic businessman, and his later career as a radical political leader. In doing so, it eschews the myth of New Lanark as a unidimensional ‘model’ village and addresses the ambiguities of Owen’s journey from paternalism to socialism.


Working Class to College

Working Class to College

Author: Robert Owen Carr

Publisher: Give Something Back Foundation

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780252041105

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This book exposes an education class divide that is threatening the American dream of upward social mobility and sowing resentment among those shut out or staggering under crushing debt. The book addresses ways to reduce college costs and shares the inspiring accounts of those who have endured all sorts of hardship "homelessness, an incarcerated parent, dangerously low self-esteem--and fought their way to college and commencement.


A New View of Society and Other Writings

A New View of Society and Other Writings

Author: Robert Owen

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0140433481

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This wide-ranging selection of Owen's writings reflects his intense concern for equality, justice, education, and labor reform, offering insights into his radical proposal for a full-scale reorganization of British society through the concept of cooperative model communities.


The Australian Beekeeping Manual

The Australian Beekeeping Manual

Author: Robert Owen

Publisher: Exisle Publishing

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1775594734

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The Australian Beekeeping Manual is the most comprehensive reference for both novice and experienced beekeepers in Australia. The accessible yet detailed text, supported by over 350 full-colour photographs and illustrations, covers all the key areas, including the beekeeping equipment needed, how to obtain bees, where to locate them in the garden, and the basics of colony management. There are also in-depth chapters on the lifecycle of the honey bee, extracting honey, creating a bee-friendly garden, entering honey in competitions, pests and diseases, native bees, and rearing queens. A feature of this 2nd edition is the addition of a new chapter on the Flow Hive. The result is an invaluable beekeeping resource that will be referred to time and again, and which can be taken out to the hive for use as an immediate step-by-step guide or read at leisure.


The Life of Robert Owen

The Life of Robert Owen

Author: G. D. H. Cole

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781138336551

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First published in 1925. Robert Owen was, in the author¿s words, ¿that rarest of phenomena, an utterly disinterested critic of a system by which he had himself risen to greatness¿, and in studying his life this work reveals with a remarkable clarity the first phases of the Industrial Revolution crowded as it was with events, changes, ideas, and characters. This title will be of great interest to scholars and students of labour history.