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This volume consists of twelve essays from leading scholars and younger researchers on various aspects of the life, work and legacy of Robert Owen (1771-1858). 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. He established utopian communities in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and is often thought of as a leading early British socialist.

Educators --- Education --- Social reformers --- Reformers --- Educationalists --- Educationists --- Faculty (Education) --- Specialists --- History. --- Owen, Robert, --- Oʹen, Robert, --- Oven, Robert, --- Ouėn, Robert, --- Ou-wen, --- Ou-wen, Lo-po-tʻe, --- One of His Majesty's justices of peace for the county of Lanark, --- אואן, רוברט, --- אוען, ראבערט, --- Economic schools --- Owen, Robert

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Collective settlements --- -#SBIB:321H30 --- #SBIB:321H60 --- Communal settlements --- Communistic settlements --- Communism --- Cooperation --- Socialism --- Collective farms --- Communal living --- History --- Hedendaagse politieke en sociale theorieën (vanaf de 19de eeuw): algemeen (incl. utilitarisme, burgerschap) --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw: socialisme, marxisme, communisme, anarchisme --- Owen, Robert --- History. --- Owen, Robert, --- #SBIB:321H30 --- Oʹen, Robert, --- Oven, Robert, --- Ouėn, Robert, --- Ou-wen, --- Ou-wen, Lo-po-tʻe, --- One of His Majesty's justices of peace for the county of Lanark, --- אואן, רוברט, --- אוען, ראבערט,

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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 Drawing from previously unpublished archival sources, this study shows that New Lanark was not merely on the receiving end of Owen’s innovative brand of industrial paternalism, but also acted as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.

Socialism --- Utopian socialism. --- History. --- Owen, Robert, --- Social reformers. --- New Lanark Establishment. --- Reformers --- Oʹen, Robert, --- Oven, Robert, --- Ouėn, Robert, --- Ou-wen, --- Ou-wen, Lo-po-tʻe, --- One of His Majesty's justices of peace for the county of Lanark, --- אואן, רוברט, --- אוען, ראבערט, --- Great Britain-History. --- Intellectual life-History. --- Social history. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- History, Modern. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Intellectual Studies. --- Social History. --- History of Modern Europe. --- Modern History. --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Great Britain—History. --- Intellectual life—History. --- Europe—History—1492-.