Robert owen brief biography of williams
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he diversity and complexity of Robert Owen, the philosopher and philanthropist, the industrialist and social reformer, do not fall easily into an abridged format.
Robert owen brief biography of williams
Nor is it possible to capture on paper the sense of hero-worship at his mass meetings which emulated those of his Irish contemporary Daniel O’Connell. Owen’s life spanned all the changes brought about by the aftermath of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, living through an unsettled period of social unrest set amidst the machinery-versus-man debate of the rapidly developing industrial revolution.
Robert Owen from a lithograph published in Manchester about 1840, Podmore (1906 ed.) facing p. 494. [Click on the illustrations to enlarge them, and generally for more information about them.]
A simplified analysis leads to sub-division into four phases: his early life and self-training; his management of four mills at New Lanark, near Glasgow; his ill-conceived sojourn in America, where he lost his vast fortune;