Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)
For other people named Robert Owen, see Robert Owen (disambiguation).
Robert Owen
Portrait by William Henry Brooke, 1834
Born
(1771-05-14)14 May 1771
Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Died
17 November 1858(1858-11-17) (aged 87)
Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Occupations
Co-operator
social reformer
textile mill co-owner
philanthropic capitalist
Spouse
Ann (or Anne) Caroline Dale
(m. 1799, died)
Children
8, including Robert, David and Richard
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Robert Owen (/ˈoʊɪn/; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 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.
^Richard Gunderman (11 May 2021). "Robert Owen, born 250 years ago, tried to use his wealth to perfect humanity in a radically equal society". New Haven Register. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
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