1771 - 1858
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Details
| First Name |
Robert
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| Last Name |
Owen
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| Birthday |
14th May, 1771
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| Birthplace |
Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales
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| Died |
17th November, 1858
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| Place of Death |
Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales
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| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus
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| Religion |
Deist
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| Nationality |
Welsh
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| Occupation Text |
Co-operator; social reformer, factory owner; inventor
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| Occupation |
Business
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Robert Owen (; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858), a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, was one founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He is known for efforts to improve factory working conditions for his workers and promote experimental socialistic communities. In the early 1800s, he became wealthy as an investor and eventual manager of a large textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland. He had initially trained as a draper in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and worked in London before relocating aged 18 to Manchester and becoming a textile manufacturer. In 1824, Owen travelled to America and invested most of his fortune in an experimental socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana, a preliminary model for Owen's Utopian society. It lasted about two years; other Owenite Utopian communities met similar fates. In 1828, Owen returned to settle in London, where he continued to champion the working class, led the development of cooperatives and the trade union movement, and supported the passage of child labour laws and free co-educational schools.
