Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth Century Socialism. Volume I [electronic resource] / edited by Ophélie Siméon.
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TextPublisher: Milton : Routledge, 2021Description: 1 online resource (537 p.)ISBN: 9780429839504; 0429839502; 9780429839511; 0429839510; 9780429452376; 0429452373; 9780429839498; 0429839499Subject(s): Utopian socialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | HISTORY / General | HISTORY / Modern / 19th CenturyDDC classification: 335.1209034 LOC classification: HX695.A3Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement Description based upon print version of record.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- General introduction: socialism before the age of party -- Introduction -- Part 1 Work as it was and how it might be
1 ""An Address to the Superintendents of Manufactories, and to those Individuals generally, who, by giving Employment to an aggregated Population, may easily adopt the Means to form the Sentiments and Manners of such a Population"", in A New View of Society, or, Essays on the Formation of the Human Character: Preparatory to the Development of a Plan for Gradually Ameliorating the Condition of Mankind, III (London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, [1814] 1816), 71-77.
2 ""Evidence of Robert Owen on his New Lanark Experiment"", in Report of Minutes of Evidence, taken before the Select Committee on the State of Children employed in the Manufactories of the United Kingdom (London: Hansard, 1816), 20-28.
3 ""Letter, dated July 25 and 16, 1817, containing a Further Development of the Plan contained in the Report to the Committee of the Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor, with Answers and Objections"" (1817), in A Supplementary Appendix to the First Volume of The Life of Robert Owen, Containing a Series of Reports, Addresses, Memorials, and Other Documents, Referred to in That Volume. 1803-1820 (London: Effingham Wilson, 1858) Appendix I.2, 65-78.
4 Remarks on the Practicability of Mr. Robert Owen's Plan to Improve the Condition of the Lower Classes (London: S. Leigh, 1819), 25-28. -- 5 ""On the Causes of the Distress Prevalent in Great Britain"", in Report of the Committee appointed at a Meeting of Journeymen, Chiefly Printers, to take into Consideration Certain Propositions, Submitted to Them by Mr. George Mudie, Having for their Object a System of Social Arrangement, Calculated to Effect Essential Improvements in the Condition of the Working Classes (London: The Medallic Cabinet, 1821), 4-5.
6 ""Rights of Industry. Founding of the National Regeneration Society in Favour of the Eight-Hour Day"", Crisis, 7 December 1833, 117.
This first volume willshowcase the richness and diversity of the Owenite movement, which spanned decades (from Owen's first published books in 1813-16 to the late 1840s), political allegiances, genders and continents. This volume therefore calls for a variety of sources not easily available elsewhere - including books, pamphlets, correspondence and newspaper articles - and a variety of often overlapping voices - from Chartists to early co-operators, secularists, non-British Owenites and proponents of women's rights. The sheer range of Owenite ventures (intentional communities, co-operatives, labour exchanges and experiments in popular education) will be covered, thus blending social and political history. The attempt to map the Owenite movement will eventually lead to the identification of its shared, core principles and values: internationalism, co-operation, concepts of political change, and above all, the ideal of community.
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