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Robert Owen (1771 – 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He is known among other things for efforts to improve his factory's working conditions, promoting experimental socialistic communities, and proposing a more collective approach to child rearing, including government control of education
He became wealthy in the early 1800s as an investor and eventual manager of the textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland,now restored as a museum and heritage centre,
( thanks to RBH for mill owner photo and Bing for background photo )
mill owner 2
Robert Owen (1771 – 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He is known among other things for efforts to improve his factory's working conditions, promoting experimental socialistic communities, and proposing a more collective approach to child rearing, including government control of education
He became wealthy in the early 1800s as an investor and eventual manager of the textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland,now restored as a museum and heritage centre,
( thanks to RBH for mill owner photo and Bing for background photo )