Robert Owen
English Member of Parliament (1658-1698)
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| Intro | English Member of Parliament (1658-1698) | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain England | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 16 November 1658 | |
| Death | 30 March 1698 (aged 39 years) |
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Robert Owen (; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He worked in the cotton industry in Manchester before setting up a large mill at New Lanark in Scotland. In 1824, Owen travelled to America to invest the bulk of his fortune in an experimental 1,000-member colony on the banks of Indiana's Wabash River, called New Harmony. New Harmony was intended to be a Utopian society.