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Robert Owen
Owen, Robert
Owen, Robert (1771–1858) Welsh industrialist and social reformer. He believed that better conditions for workers would lead to greater productivity. He put these beliefs into practice at his textile mills in Scotland. He also attempted to establish a self-contained cooperative community in New Harmony, Indiana (1825–27). His ideas provided the basis for the
cooperative movement.
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Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium: A Study of the Harmony Community.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Edward Royle. Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium...and often misunderstood thoughts of Robert Owen. Royle's primary concern is the...Martineau, whom Royle quotes, said, "Robert Owen is not the man to think differently...
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Ian Donnachie. Robert Owen: Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...HERE IS YET ANOTHER BIOGRAPHY of Robert Owen (1771-1858)--it has, after...the self-congratulatory tone of Owen's autobiography and, frankly...disrupts the biographical narrative. Robert Owen: Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony...
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Out of Harmony; Indiana histories. (Robert Owen's utopian dream for New Harmony, IN)(History and Memory)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...mill entrepreneur and visionary, Robert Owen, in 1824. A wealthy industrial...community was extremely open. Robert Owen was a missionary anxious to convert...when a former residence of one of Robert Owen's children, Jane, was donated...
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Robert Owen: pioneer of personnel management.
Newspaper article from: Thinkers; 12/1/1999; 700+ words
; Robert Owen (1771-1858) was an early industrialist...otherwise) of their expendable employees. Owen's strength was that he saw his employees...claimed as a father of personnel management. Owen the factory owner By the age of 19, Owen...
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Broker takes the fuss out of flex. (Robert Owen, selling flexible benefit plans)
Magazine article from: National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition; 12/4/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...easy to do? The simple fact is that Robert Owen has made a success of selling flexible...within the same industry, says Mr. Owen, a principal of Brokers Diversified...about target marketing," says Mr. Owen. "Once you get in and get known...
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United Kingdom: Robert Owen Society Selects Thus for Ethernet Solution.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 7/11/2008; 512 words
; Byline: shabnam05 Robert Owen Society, an education and training...next-generation network linking Robert Owen Society's two corporate sites...Chris Morgan, chief executive of Robert Owen Society, said: Robert Owen believed...
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Through the looking glass: Victor Frankenstein and Robert Owen.
Magazine article from: Extrapolation; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a philanthropic mill owner of the...3). But I'd concede some arbitrariness in pairing Owen and Frankenstein. Yet, as Iain Donnachie argues, Owen was clearly influenced by Mary Shelley's father, William...
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Robert Owen: New Lanark's Enlightened Revolutionary
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 9/7/2001; 700+ words
; ...monument to his search for Utopia. Robert Owen was an 18th-century mill owner who...mere morass" in the Clyde Valley by Owen's father-in-law, Glasgow businessman...orphanages of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Owen had first visited the model village...
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Robert Owen Richardson
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL); 4/14/2006; 700+ words
; Robert Owen Richardson Robert Owen Richardson, 83, formerly of Gallatin, Mo., died Friday, April 7, 2006, at the Tabor Hills Healthcare Center in Naperville. He was born Sept. 7, 1922, to Denver Oscar and Izetta Opal (Wellman) Richardson...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Robert Owen Key formerly of Barrington and Palatine.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 1/16/2006; 462 words
; Robert Owen Key formerly of Barrington and Palatine The visitation for Robert Owen Key, 76, of Huntley, will be from 5 p.m. until the time of services...
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Robert Owen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Robert Owen The attempts of the British socialist pioneer Robert Owen (1771-1858) to reconstruct society...experimentation and the cooperative movement. Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Wales, on May 14...
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Robert Dale Owen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Robert Dale Owen Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877), Scottish-born American legislator...Scotland, on Nov. 9, 1801, Robert Dale Owen, the eldest son of Robert Owen, attended the school his father had established at New Lanark. After...
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Owen, Robert
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Owen, Robert (1771–1858),“...social influences. This philosophy led Owen to propose the foundation of socialized...America (1824) and founded New Harmony . Robert Dale Owen (1801–77), his son, emigrated...
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Owen, David Dale
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
OWEN, DAVID DALE ( b . New Lanark, Scotland, 24 June 1807; d . New Harmony, Indiana, 13 November 1860), geology . Owen was the son of Robert Owen, the utopian philanthropist and progressive mill owner, and Anne...
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Holme Roberts & Owen LLP
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...for many years. J. Churchill Owen, Sr., also integral to the...joined the law firm in 1926. Owen, Sr., was born in Cripple...from 1894 to 1906. Attorneys Robert E. More and Milton J. Keegan...1930s. During World War II, Owen, Sr., left the firm to serve...
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