Robert Owen and His Legacy

283 Pages·2012·2.191 MB·English

by  Thompson, Noel;Williams, Chris

Robert Owen
and his Legacy
Edited by
Noel Thompson & Chris Williams
University of Wales Press

Robert Owen and his Legacy
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In Memory of Nina Fishman (1946–2009)
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Robert Owen and his Legacy
Edited by
Noel Thompson and Chris Williams
Cardiff
University of Wales Press
2011
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© The Contributors, 2011
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form
(including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and
whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication)
without the written permission of the copyright owner. Applications for the copy­
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be addressed to the University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place,
Cardiff CF10 4UP.
www.uwp.co.uk
British Library CIP Data
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ISBN 978­0­7083­2442­4 (hardback)
978­0­7083­2443­1 (paperback)
e­ISBN 978­0­7083­2444­8
The rights of the Contributors to be identified as authors of this work have been
asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988.
Typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt, Cardiff
Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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Contents
List of Abbreviations vi
List of Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Noel Thompson and Chris Williams
1 Robert Owen: Reputations and Burning Issues 13
Ian Donnachie
2 Robert Owen and Some Later Socialists 33
Gregory Claeys
3 The Great Experiment: New Lanark from Robert Owen to
World Heritage Site 55
Lorna Davidson and Jim Arnold
4 Robert Owen and Education 71
Francis J. O’Hagan
5 Robert Owen and Religion 91
Robert A. Davis
6 Owen and the Owenites: Consumer and Consumption
in the New Moral World 113
Noel Thompson
7 Robert Owen as a British Politician and Parliamentarian 129
Margaret Escott
8 Robert Owen’s Unintended Legacy: Class Conflict 155
Ben Maw
9 Robert Owen and ‘The Greatest Discovery Ever Made By Man’ 175
Geoffrey Powell
10 Exporting the Owenite Utopia: Thomas Powell and the Tropical
Emigration Society 197
Malcolm Chase
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11 Robert Owen and Wales 219
Chris Williams
Afterword: Looking Forward: Co­operative Politics
or Can Owen Still Help? 239
Stephen Yeo
Select Bibliography 259
Index 261
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Abbreviations
AACAN The Association of All Classes of All Nations
BL British Library
CJ Commons’ Journals
CM Caledonian Mercury
GNCTU Grand National Consolidated Trades Union
LJ Lords’ Journals
LRS Leeds Redemption Society
MC Morning Chronicle
MS Morning Star
NAS National Archives of Scotland
NLW National Library of Wales
NMW New Moral World
NS Northern Star
NUWC National Union of the Working Classes
OSPC Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence, ed. Gregory
Claeys (London, 2005), 10 vols
PD Parliamentary Debates
PMG Poor Man’s Guardian
PP Parliamentary Papers
SWRO Selected Works of Robert Owen, ed. Gregory Claeys (London,
1993), 4 vols
TES Tropical Emigration Society
TNA The National Archives
UCL University College London
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