Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire (Wales) on May 14, 1771, the sixth of seven children. His father was a sadler and ironmonger who also served as local postmaster; his mother came from one of the prosperous farming families of Newtown. ... See also A. L. Morton, The Life and Ideas of Robert Owen (New York:
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Robert Owen (1771-1858) ... While at New Lanark, Robert Owen demonstrated management policies that are now widely recognised as precursors of modern theories relating to human resource management, as well as skilful and ethical business practice.
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Robert Owen (14 May 1771–17 November 1858), born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales was a social reformer and one of the founders of socialism and the cooperative movement. Owen's philosophy was base...
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A "doer" more than a "talker", utopian socialist Robert Owen founded the famous New Lanark Mills in Scotland as an example of the viability of co-operative factory communities. Many industrialists actually visited these "model factories" and some even adopted parts of Owen's system.
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The biography and ideas of Robert Owen as developed at New Lanark and the New Harmony community. The Co-operative movement and utopian socialism. ...   Owen, Robert (1771-1858), was a British utopian socialist who is generally considered to have been the father of the Co-operative movement.   He was born on May 14th, 1771,
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Robert Owen's educational venture at New Lanark helped to pioneer infant schools and was an early example of what we now recognize as community schooling.
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Robert Owen, the son of a saddler and ironmonger from Newtown in Wales, was born on 14th May, 1771. Robert was an intelligent boy who did very well at his local school, but at the age of ten, his father sent him to work in a large drapers in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
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Secondary Literature A, Briggs, `Owen, Robert', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , D. L. Sills (ed.) (Macmillan and Free Press, 1968), vol. 11; A. L. Morton, The Life and Ideas of Robert Owen (Lawrence & Wishart, 1962);
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Biography of Robert Owen, industrialist who became the father of the co-operative movement ... SADDLER'S son Robert Owen was manager of a Manchester cotton mill by the age of 19 and blossomed into possibly the greatest social and educational reformer of his time, known universally as the founder of the co-operative movement.
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