The Life, Times, and Labours of Robert Owen
The Life, Times, and Labours of Robert Owen

Author: Lloyd Jones

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Published: 1890

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13:

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The Life, Times & Labours of Robert Owen
The Life, Times & Labours of Robert Owen

Author: Lloyd Jones

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-01-08

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 129140323X

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Born in 1771, in Newtown, Wales, Robert Owen moved to Manchester and became a highly successful capitalist. Appalled by the divisions industrial capitalism wrought on society and children in particular, he fought for legislation to improve the health, education and rights of working people, and strived to put his own ideas into practice. He encountered much opposition, not least from the Church of England. However he influenced many social reformers. Frederick Engels was a friendly critic and great admirer. On the occasion of Owen's death he played tribute to him as the first man "to place socialism on a practical basis." Today the Co-operative Movement embraces one-billion members world-wide. Its tremendous success, especially in the form of workers' co-operatives, remains a testament to his foresight, as well as providing living proof there are viable and more efficient alternatives to global capitalism.

The Life of Robert Owen
The Life of Robert Owen

Author: G. D. H. Cole

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0429810628

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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.

Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium
Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium

Author: Edward Royle

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1998-07-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780719054266

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Europe was swept by revolution in the period from 1789 to 1848. Britain, alone of the major western powers, seemed exempt from this revolutionary fervour. The governing class attributed this exemption to divine providence and the soundness of the British Constitution. This view has been upheld by historians for over a century. This book provides students with an alternative view of the potential for revolution and the resources of conservatism in early industrial Britain which challenges many of the common assumptions. Incorporates quotations from primary sources to give the reader a critical sense of why revolution was taken seriously by people at the time. Shows how the revolutionaries were defeated by the government's propaganda against revolutionary sentiments and the strength of popular conservatism.

The Life, Times and Labours of Robert Owen (Classic Reprint)
The Life, Times and Labours of Robert Owen (Classic Reprint)

Author: Lloyd Jones

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781528584111

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Excerpt from The Life, Times and Labours of Robert Owen Lord Edward Fitzgerald, he made his escape to the Wicklow Hills, where a number of the insurgents, gathering head, fought a skirmish with a body of tr00ps by whom they were defeated when my grand father, travelling by night and hiding during the day, made his way farther south. Ultimately he became a small employer of labour, in the fustian-cutting trade, in Bandon, where he married, and where my father was born in the year 181 I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.