Book description
In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly
formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in
transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions,
proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation ofmankind' and the
creation of a 'new moral world', a full-scale reorganization of British
society, major reforms of working practices and the Poor Laws and the
establishment of co-operative model.
Robert Owen (1771-1858) was one of the greatest of British social reformers.
George Claeys received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and
is now Associate Professor of History at Washington University.
