Founder of Utopian Socialism Robert Owen Biography Book w/Portrait Russia 1893

Description: The life of great people. Biographical Library by F. Pavlenkov. Robert Owen. His life and social activity. Biographical sketch by Kamensky. With portrait of Robert Owen. St. Petersburg 1893. Robert Owen (1771 – 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. He strove to improve factory working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, and sought a more collective approach to child-rearing, including government control of education.[1] He gained wealth in the early 1800s from a textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland. Having trained as a draper in Stamford, Lincolnshire he worked in London before relocating aged 18 to Manchester and textile manufacturing. In 1824, he moved to America and put most of his fortune in an experimental socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana, as a preliminary for his Utopian society. It lasted about two years. Other Owenite communities also failed, and in 1828 Owen returned to London, where he continued to champion the working class, lead in developing co-operatives and the trade union movement, and support child labour legislation and free co-educational schools. Жизнь Замечательных людей. Биографическая библиотека Ф. Павленкова.Роберт Оуэн. Его жизнь и общественная деятельность. Биографический очерк Каменскаго. С портретом Оуэна, гравированным в Лейпциге Геданом.С.- Петербург 1893. Hard semi-leather cover, 102 pages. In Russian. Approx. size 120 x 180 mm. Condition-see scans ( antique library stamps). DO NOT FORGET TO VISIT MY STORE. S&H by registered mail with tracking nr. $13.00. Combined shipping.

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