Robert Owen
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages · author page
Owen
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Social reformer named among self-made leaders of social movements.
Robert Owen and Joseph Lancaster, both sprung from the ranks, were leaders in social movements.
’ In short, the study planted by Adam Smith and watered by Ricardo had, in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, imbibed a full measure of the spirit of Saint-Simon and Owen,—and that in England, the home of what the Germans call ‘Manchesterthum.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Social reformer who attributed the glut of commodities and unemployment to the use of machinery exclusively for capitalist profit
Notably, we may observe the glut of commodities as the pre-eminent cause of lack of employment and misery for the working classes, already instanced by Robert Owen as directly due to the use of machinery by the great capitalists exclusively for their own profit.