Robert Owen
✶May 14, 1771
†November 17, 1858
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✶May 14, 1771
†November 17, 1858
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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'.
Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)
Biography from the article Robert Owen on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.