Robert Owen

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Robert Owen : biography

14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858

Robert Owen (14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.

Sources

Biographies

  • Robert Owen. (London, 1857)
  • Robert Dale Owen. (London: Trubner & Co., 1874) – R. D. Owen was the son of Robert Owen.

There are also Lives of Owen by:

  • A. J. Booth. (London, 1869)
  • G. D. H. Cole. Life of Robert Owen (London, Ernest Benn Ltd., 1925)
  • Lloyd Jones. (London, 1889).
  • A. L. Morton. The Life and Ideas of Robert Owen (London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1962)
  • F. A. Packard. (Philadelphia: Ashmead & Evans, 1866)
  • Frank Podmore (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1906).
  • Frank Podmore (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1906).
  • David Santilli. Life Of the Mill Man (London, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1987)
  • W. L. Sergeant. (London, 1860)
  • Richard Tames. Radicals, Railways & Reform (London, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1986)
  • by Troy Southgate

Other works about him

  • Arthur Bestor, Backwoods Utopias, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950, second edition, 1970).
  • Gregory Claeys. Machinery, Money and the Millennium: From Moral Economy to Socialism 1815–1860 (Princeton University Press, 1987)
  • Gregory Claeys. Citizens and Saints. Politics and Anti Politics in Early British Socialism (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
  • R. E. Davies. (Robert Sutton, 1907)
  • R. A. Davis and F. J. O’Hagan, Robert Owen (London; Continuum Press, 2010)
  • E. Dolleans. (Paris, 1905).
  • I. Donnachie, Robert Owen. Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony (2000)
  • Auguste Fabre. (Nìmes, Bureaux de l’Émancipation, 1896).
  • John F. C. Harrison. Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: Quest for the New Moral World (New York, 1969).
  • Alexander Herzen. My Past and Thoughts (University of California Press, 1982) – one chapter is devoted to Owen.
  • G. J. Holyoake, (London, 1906)
  • G. J. Holyoake, (London, 1906)
  • The National Library of Wales. (1914)
  • H. Simon, Robert Owen: sein Leben und seine Bedeutung für die Gegenwart (Jena, 1905)

Works

  • 1813. A New View Of Society, Essays on the Formation of Human Character. London.
  • 1815. Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System. 2nd edn, London.
  • 1817. Report to the Committee for the Relief of the Manufacturing Poor. In The Life of Robert Owen written by Himself, 2 vols, London, 1857-8.
  • 1818. Two memorials behalf of the working classes. In The Life of Robert Owen written by Himself, 2 vols, London, 1857-8.
  • 1819. An Address to the Master Manufacturers of Great Britain. Bolton.
  • 1821. Report to the County of Lanark of a Plan for relieving Public Distress. Glasgow: Glasgow University Press.
  • 1823. An Explanation of the Cause of Distress which pervades the civilized parts of the world. London. & Paris.
  • 1830. Was one of the founders of the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union (GNCTU)
  • 1832. An Address to All Classes in the State. London.
  • 1849. The Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race. London.

Robert Owen wrote numerous works about his system. Of these, the most notable are:

  • the New View of Society
  • the Report communicated to the Committee on the Poor Law
  • the Book of the New Moral World
  • Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race
  • Owen’s major works are reprinted in (Gregory Claeys, editor), The Selected Works of Robert Owen

(4 vols., London, Pickering and Chatto, 1993) The Robert Owen Collection, that includes papers and letters as well as copies of pamphlets and books by him and about him is deposited with the National Co-operative Archive, UK.