Robert Owen (1771 to 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher and social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. Born in Newtown in Montgomeryshire, he left school at ten to apprentice as a draper, later worked in Manchester, and made his fortune from a textile mill at New Lanark in Scotland. He worked to improve factory conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, and favoured a more collective approach to raising children and lifelong education. In 1824 he put most of his fortune into the community at New Harmony, Indiana, which lasted about two years. After returning to London in 1828 he championed co-operatives, trade unions, child labour legislation and free co-educational schools.
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was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher and social reformer
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was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher and social reformer
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and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement
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Owen had been a follower of classical liberalism as espoused by utilitarian Jeremy Bentham
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