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Robert Owen and his Legacy Edited by Noel Thompson & Chris Williams University of Wales Press Robert Owen and his Legacy 00 Prelims_ RobertOwen_3_10_2011.indd 1 10/17/2011 4:04:14 PM In Memory of Nina Fishman (1946–2009) 00 Prelims_ RobertOwen_3_10_2011.indd 2 10/17/2011 4:04:14 PM Robert Owen and his Legacy Edited by Noel Thompson and Chris Williams Cardiff University of Wales Press 2011 00 Prelims_ RobertOwen_3_10_2011.indd 3 10/17/2011 4:04:14 PM © 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 right owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP. www.uwp.co.uk British Library CIP Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library 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 00 Prelims_ RobertOwen_3_10_2011.indd 4 10/17/2011 4:04:14 PM 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 00 Prelims_ RobertOwen_3_10_2011.indd 5 10/17/2011 4:04:14 PM 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 00 Prelims_ RobertOwen_3_10_2011.indd 6 10/17/2011 4:04:14 PM 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 00 Prelims_ RobertOwen_3_10_2011.indd 7 10/17/2011 4:04:14 PM 00 Prelims_ RobertOwen_3_10_2011.indd 8 10/17/2011 4:04:14 PM
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