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	Robert Owen - LoveToKnow 1911
		ROBERT OWEN (1771-1858), English social reformer, was born at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, in North Wales, on the 14th of May 1771.
		Owen also made remarkable improvement in the quality of the cotton spun; and indeed there is no reason to doubt that at this early age he was the first cotton-spinner in England, a position entirely due to his own capacity and knowledge of the trade.
		Robert Dale Owen, the eldest (1801-1877), was for long an able exponent in his adopted country of his father's doctrines.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Owen (2246 words)

	Robert Owen
		Robert Owen, the son of a saddler and ironmonger, became one of the most successful mill owners of the Industrial Revolution with a reputation as the producer of fine cotton.
		Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Mid-Wales, in 1771, the sixth child of the local saddler and ironmonger.
		Robert Owen faced an uphill battle at New Lanark; at first the workers were suspicious of his new schemes, and his partners, whilst sympathetic, were worried about their investment.
	robert-owen.midwales.com /rowen (3793 words)

	Robert Owen - reformer
		SADDLER'S son Robert Owen was manager of a Manchester cotton mill by the age of 19 and blossomed into possibly the greatest social and educational reformer of his time, known universally as the founder of the co-operative movement.
		Owen knew from instinct and experience that workers responded more positively to consideration and kindess than to cruelty, and now he began to put into practice his reforming ideas.
		Owen's A New View of Society was published in 1813, and in it he expounded his theory that environment had a major influence on character, and berated the church for failing to fight against the evils of capitalism.
	www.cottontimes.co.uk /oweno.htm (626 words)

	Robert Owen biography : New Lanark mills
		Although Robert Owen wished to marry Anne Caroline Dale his first approach to her father was to gain his consent to Owen and his partner's purchasing of Dale's business interests rather than Owen's personal wish to marry Dale's daughter.
		In 1799 Robert Owen, at the age of twenty-seven, finalised the purchase of the Dale factory holdings in New Lanark, Scotland, and married Anne Caroline Dale soon thereafter.
		Owen was, in practical terms, a lesser force in events now that his reputation had been dented and his fortune had been depleted.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /historical/biography/robert_owen.html (1779 words)

	Robert Owen (1771-1858)
		Owen believed the common theories about over-production and the bad effects of all machinery in displacing labour, which is why he wanted to set up 'villages of co-operation': meanwhile, Owen withdrew from New Lanark where Allen objected to Owen's anti-religious principles and - as a Quaker - to the singing, dancing, and military drill.
		Owen was seen by the Whigs and the political economists as a bore: he seems to have been regarded as a social butt whose absurdity was forgiven for his good humour.
		Robert Owen was an amiable man whose ruling passion was benevolence; he was exceedingly fond of children; he spent a fortune in promoting human welfare and he was able to conciliate his opponents.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/terrace/adw03/peel/people/owen.htm (2803 words)

	Robert Owen - MSN Encarta
		Robert Owen (1771-1858), British utopian socialist, generally considered the father of the cooperative movement.
		Owen had become convinced that the advancement of humankind could be furthered by the improvement of every individual's personal environment.
		The volunteer population for this experiment, however, was assembled all too hastily, and despite Owen's periodic visits to restore the initial enthusiasm, adherence to the communal constitution was soon abandoned.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761559628 (430 words)

	Robert Owen
		One of the most interesting features of the movement at this period was the establishment in 1832 of an equitable labor exchange system, in which exchange was effected by means of labor notes, the usual means of exchange and the usual middlemen being alike superseded.
		By 1846 the only permanent result of Owen's agitation, so zealously carried on by public meetings, pamphlets, periodicals, and occasional treatises, was the cooperative movement, and for the time even that seemed to have utterly collapsed.
		Owen's third son, David Dale Owen (1807-1860), was in 1839 appointed a United States geologist, and made extensive surveys of the northwest, which were published by order of Congress.
	www.nndb.com /people/510/000096222 (2109 words)

	Robert Owen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Owen (May 14, 1771 – November 17, 1858) was a Welsh socialist and social reformer.
		Owen was born in Newtown, a small market town in Montgomeryshire]], Wales, where his father had a small business as a saddler and iron-monger, his mother came from one of the prosperous farming families, there young Owen received all his school education, which terminated at the age of ten.
		Owen's four sons, Robert Dale, William, David Dale and Richard, all became citizens of the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Owen (2828 words)

	Robert Owen
		Robert Owen, the son of a saddler and ironmonger from Newtown in Wales, was born on 14th May, 1771.
		Robert was an intelligent boy who did very well at his local school, but at the age of ten, his father sent him to work in a large drapers in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
		Robert Owen: Because I consider it to be injurious to the children, and not beneficial to the proprietors.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /IRowen.htm (2578 words)

	National Co-operative Archive
		Robert Owen was known as the 'Father of Co-operation' and of British socialism.
		Owen was involved in work to limit child labour in factories and set up co-operative communities in the UK and America.
		The illustration is of a page from a printer's proof of Robert Owen's "Report to the County of New Lanark" with corrections by the author.
	archive.co-op.ac.uk /owen.htm (309 words)

	Robert Owen
		Owen, in January, 1844, introduced in congress a joint resolution relative to the occupation of Oregon, which, though it failed at that session, passed during the next, and became the basis of the settlement of the northwestern boundary that was effected in 1846.
		Owen was a believer in spiritualism, and was one of its foremost advocates in the United States.
		Owen was taken prisoner at Mumf0rdsville, but was soon exchanged, after which he served under General William T. Sherman, was at the capture of Arkansas Post and Vicksburg, also at the taking of Jackson, Mississippi, and in 1864 was with General Nathaniel P. Banks in the Red river expedition.
	www.famousamericans.net /robertowen (1938 words)

	Education in Robert Owen's New Society: The New Lanark Institute and Schools
		According to Robert Owen's autobiography he had begun 'to clear the foundation for the infant and other schools, to form the new character of the rising population' in 1809, though it is possible that his memory was defective and that work did not start until much later.
		Robert Owen was cautious about the selection of teachers in the 'new rational infant school', for 'it was in vain to look to any old teachers upon the old system of instruction by books'.
		Owen adopted in part the methods of Lancaster, whereby certain boys and girls chosen to be monitors passed on lessons learned by rote to other children, in a sense the factory system applied to education.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/et-owen.htm (4249 words)

	Mini-Course Syllabus: Robert Owen & New Harmony
		Robert Owen (1771-1858) is generally accepted as the father of the cooperative movement.
		Owen, a wealthy British industrialist, came to America in 1825.
		Owen and his failed model community cannot be dismissed entirely.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/subcultures/colors/red/jtrieb01/riebsyll.html (317 words)

	Robert L. Owen Collection
		Robert L. Owen was born in 1856 at Lynchburg, Virginia, of Scotch-Irish and Indian ancestry.
		Owen served as the attorney for the Choctaws beginning in 1890 and later in the same capacity for the Western and Eastern Cherokees.
		Owen was elected to the United States Senate from the state of Oklahoma in December 1907 and was reelected in 1912 and in 1918.
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/owen.htm (529 words)

	Lecture 22: The Utopian Socialists: Robert Owen and Saint-Simon (2)
		Owen had introduced such improvements as shorter working hours, healthier and safer working conditions, after-hours recreation, schools for children and adults, moral education, renovated housing, an end to child labor and insurance plans financed by payroll deduction.
		Owen argued that human nature could be changed: since we are all products of our environment, one need only change the environment to change man. This environmentalism of Owen’s became a cornerstone of all socialist theories and programs of the 19th century.
		Owen argued that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the test of any system but, unlike Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, he did not believe that the best way to assure human happiness was through the increased productivity of a free market system.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/lecture22a.html (2179 words)

	Robert Owen Biography and Summary
		Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Wales, on May 14, 1771, the son of a shopkeeper.
		Robert Owen is best known as the founder of British socialism, as an ardent critic of inhumane industrialization, as a pioneering feminist, and as the proponent of just and fulfilling systems of economic organization.
		Robert Owen(May 14, 1771 – November 17, 1858) was a Welsh socialist and social reformer.
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Owen (291 words)

	Robert Owen's Parallelogram
		Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a pioneer of the early socialist movement.
		A self-taught and self-made man, he was one of the few employers in early industrial Britain to develop a genuine concern for the welfare of workers that was exemplified in the model factory (spinning mill) at New Lanark in Scotland purchased by him and his partners in 1799.
		The four sides of this figure may be adapted to contain all the private apartments or sleeping and sitting rooms for the adult part of the population; general sleeping apartments for the children while under tuition, store-rooms, warehouses, an inn.
	web.jjay.cuny.edu /~jobrien/reference/ob50.html (1273 words)

	Biographies: The Reformers: Robert Owen (1771-1858).
		But, as we have seen, the "doctrine of Universal Benevolence, the belief in the Omnipotence of Truth, and in the Perfectibility of Human Nature, are not new, but 'Old, old...'"2 The importance, however, of Robert Owen to our discussion, is that it was Owen who first tried to put socialistic theory into practice.
		Born in Wales, Owen became apprenticed to a linen draper, but through "pluck and luck" soon found himself a part owner in a large spinning establishment in Manchester; he became the boy wonder of the textile world.
		Owen of New Lanark,' was a strange mixture of practicality and naïveté, achievement and fiasco, common sense and madness.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Reformers/Owen.htm (815 words)

	American Atheists // Robert Owen
		Robert Owen only needed to see children in the factories of his day, cold, hungry, dirty, alone — and that was enough for him.
		Robert Owen was quickly infected with the most dangerous proclivity known to man: he learned to read.
		Owen, Robert, Robert Owen's Millennial Gazette, explanatory, The Principles and Practices by which, in peace, with truth, honesty, and simplicity, the new existence of man upon the earth may be easily and speedily commenced, Numbers 1-16.
	www.atheists.org /Atheism/roots/robertowen (4669 words)

	Robert Dale Owen Biography (1801-1877) - includes Bibliography, free ebooks
		Robert Dale Owen, litterateur, reformer and statesman, Was born in Glasgow, Scotland, November 7, 1801 His father was Robert Owen, the noted philanthropist, and his mother a daughter of avid Dale, a rich cotton-spinner, renowned for his benevolence.
		Owen lived to a ripe old age, and until her husband had become one of the noted men of his day.
		Owen was a devoted Odd Fellow, and was appointed by the Grand Lodge of Indiana to purchase ground, and upon it erect a Grand Lodge hall.
	www.spiritwritings.com /robertdaleowen.html (2654 words)

	New Lanark - Robert Owen
		Robert Owen was the founder of New Lanark, a Scottish cotton mill in which he implemented a model utopian community.
		Owen was not afraid of controversy and at times seemed deliberately to court it.
		Owen argued that a person's character is formed by circumstances over which he has no control.
	www.bl.uk /learning/histcitizen/21cc/utopia/model1/robertowen1/prnvowen.html (226 words)

	New Lanark Early History & Robert Owen Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Owen's first moves were to increase the working day from 13 to 14 hours and to tighten discipline, dismissing anyone found drunk three times.
		Over the following years Robert Owen gradually began to implement a series of ideas that at their time were revolutionary.
		Robert Owen's ideas led to conflict with his partners, and in 1813 he was obliged to bid against them to take full control of New Lanark, this time for £114,100.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /lanark/newlanark/history1.html (850 words)

	Robert Owen — FactMonster.com
		Owen, Robert, 1771–1858, British social reformer and socialist, pioneer in the cooperative movement.
		Throughout his life Owen based his social programs on the idea that individual character is molded by environment and can be improved in a society based upon cooperation.
		Robert Owens TIERNAN - TIERNAN, Robert Owens (1929—) TIERNAN, Robert Owens, a Representative from Rhode Island; born...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0837146.html (436 words)

	Published Works of Robert Owen
		Robert Owen's Opening Speech and his Reply to the Rev. Alex Campbell (Cincinnati, 1829).
		Public Discussion between Robert Owen, late of New Lanarck, and the Rev. J.H. Roebuck, of Manchester (Manchester, A. Heywood, 1837).
		Letter from Mr Robert Owen to the President and Members of the New York State Convention, Appointed to Revise the Constitution of the State (Washington, 1846).
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/owen/owenbib.htm (1350 words)

	Robert W. Owen - SourceWatch
		Robert W. Owen is Executive Vice President of GlobalOptions, Inc., "an international security and risk management company." Owen's name is linked with the Iran/Contra scandal.
		Owen was later the Executive Director of the Institute on Terrorism and Sub-National Conflict.
		Leaving Washington, Owen became special assistant for international liaison at a Christian ministry where he was responsible for expanding relations in Europe and the Soviet Union.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Robert_W._Owen (665 words)

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