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Robert Owen

NOUN
  1. Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

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  • MBEs also went to stonemason Alan Horsfield, who was honoured for services to St Paul's Cathedral, Welsh caretaker Robert Owen, who was recognised for services to the community in Holyhead, Anglesey, and Mary Watt, who was rewarded for services to highland dance teaching in Ross-shire, Scotland. New Year honours: Recognition for unsung heroes in the public sector
  • Robert Owen Roberts, lieutenancy officer, Cheshire. New Year honours list: Knights Bachelor, Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order and Royal Victorian Medal
  • It can be traced back to nineteenth-century philanthropists like the early socialist entrepreneur Robert Owen and various Quaker-owned businesses.
  • There has never been a shortage of brilliant innovators such as Robert Owen, the founder of the co-operative movement, Florence Nightingale (a great social reformer, as well as a statistician and nurse), Ebenezer Howard (the founder of garden cities) and my own predecessor at the Young Foundation, Michael Young, the founder of dozens of new ventures from Which? to the Open University. Happiness – and how to find it
  • The textbook of Principles of Marxist Philophy (HEP, 2002-2007), edited by Wang Ruishen, etc. says that Robert Owen was a French utopian socialist in the 19th century. This is a common mistake.
  • Robert Owen, the Icarians, and the Fourieristic experiments, and absolutely all that enjoyed any measure of success, were organized primarily for religious ends under strong religious influences, and were maintained on a basis of definite religious convictions and practices. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • For a short time he paid attention to the socialist notions of Robert Owen, but then let them fade.
  • Original Sin" has a wonderful chapter on Robert Owen, the 19th-century English industrialist who migrated to America to found a utopian community called New Harmony. Paradise Lost, Again and Again
  • New Lanark, the most famous early mill village, was created and run by its begetter, Robert Owen, with a blend of benevolence and authoritarianism.
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