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A radical thinker and humanitarian employer, Owen made a major contribution to nineteenth-century social movements including co-operatives, trade unions and workers’ education. He was a pioneer of enlightened approaches to the education of children and an advocate of birth control.

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    288 pages

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    7 March 2012

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Summary

J. F. C. Harrison has written that ‘for each age there is a new view of Mr Owen’, which is proof of the fertility and continuing relevance of his ideas. Not just in Britain and America but today around the world anti-poverty campaigners, birth-controllers, collectivists, communitarians, co-operators, ecologists, educationalists, environmentalists, feminists, humanitarians, internationalists, paternalistic capitalists, secularists, campaigners for social justice, trade unionists, urban plan…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780708324431
ISBN-10:0708324436
Author:Chris Williams, Noel Thompson
Publisher:University of Wales Press
Imprint:University of Wales Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:7 March 2012
Weight:431g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
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Chris Williams

Noel Thompson is Professor of History and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Swansea University. Chris Williams is Professor of Welsh History and Director of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities at Swansea University.

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