A New View Of Society And Other Writings Penguin Classics Robert Owen Gregory Claeys by Robert Owen & Gregory Claeys 9780141932194, 0141932198 instant download after payment.

In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation of mankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', a full-scale reorganization of British society, major reforms of working practices and the Poor Laws and the establishment of co-operative model.
Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He worked in the cotton industry in Manchester before setting up a large mill at New Lanark in Scotland.
George Claeys received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and is now Associate Professor of History at Washington University.