First published in 1925. Robert Owen was, in the author’s words, ‘that rarest of phenomena, an utterly disinterested critic of a system by which he had himself risen to greatness’, and in studying his life this work reveals with a remarkable clarity the first phases of the Industrial Revolution crowded as it was with events, changes, ideas, and characters. This title will be of great interest to scholars and students of labour history.
1. Robert Owen and His Times
2. The Child
3. The Shop-Boy
4. A Romance
of Business
5. Manchester Marriage
6. New Lanark, 1800-1813
7. Life at
Braxfield
8. Ideas on Education
9. The First Factory Act
10. "Mr. Owens
Plan"
11. The Days of Peterloo
12. Later Years at New Lanark
13. The
Beginnings of Owenism
14. New Harmony
15. The Labour Exchange and the
Builders Guild
16. The "Trade Union"
17. Old Age
18. Conclusion; Appendices;
Index
George Douglas Howard Cole (25 September 1889 14 January 1959) was an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. As a libertarian socialist he was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and an advocate for the co-operative movement.
