The attempts of the British socialist pioneer Robert Owen (1771-1858) to reconstruct society widely influenced social experimentation and the cooperative movement.Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Wale...
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Robert Owen is considered one of the original socialists. His ideas about cooperation and workers' rights laid the foundation for socialist principles and trade unions and influenced thinkers such as ...
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Robert Owen is best known as the founder of British socialism, as an ardent critic of inhumane industrialization, as a pioneering feminist, and as the proponent of just and fulfilling systems of econo...
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The eighty-seven years of Robert Owen's life can be divided into two phases, each as extraordinary as they are extraordinarily different. In his first four decades Owen rose from obscure origins and s...
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In the following essay, Gray considers the life and thought of British socialist Robert Owen.
Among that queer bunch of visionary and Utopian socialists, to whom in some undefined proportion is usu...
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Bancroft family members owning 32 percent of Dow Jones & Co.'s
overall votes have agreed to support News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for
Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, th...
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The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Bancroft family is still divided over whether to sell Dow Jones, Inc. to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for $5 billion.
Michael B. Elefante, the family's...
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While you were sleeping, the proposal to sell Dow Jones, Inc. to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. got more complicated.
The Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones Inc., missed a self-imposed deadline...
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen
Robert Owen
Critical Essay by Alexander Gray
LEAD: News Corp. appears to have enough votes to clinch deal: WSJ
