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About Robert Owen
Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. He strove to improve factory working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, sought a more collective approach to child-rearing, and 'believed in lifelong education, establishing an Institute for the Formation of Character and School for Children that focused less on job skills than on becoming a better person'.
Everything about Robert Owen →- Occupation
- entrepreneur, economist, philanthropist, politician
- Citizenship
- Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 14, 1771
- Died
- November 17, 1858