Robert Owen - Works

Works

  • 1813. A New View Of Society, Essays on the Formation of Human Character. London.
  • 1815. Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System. 2nd edn, London.
  • 1817. Report to the Committee for the Relief of the Manufacturing Poor. In The Life of Robert Owen written by Himself, 2 vols, London, 1857-8.
  • 1818. Two memorials behalf of the working classes. In The Life of Robert Owen written by Himself, 2 vols, London, 1857-8.
  • 1819. An Address to the Master Manufacturers of Great Britain. Bolton.
  • 1821. Report to the County of Lanark of a Plan for relieving Public Distress. Glasgow: Glasgow University Press.
  • 1823. An Explanation of the Cause of Distress which pervades the civilized parts of the world. London. & Paris.
  • 1830. Was one of the founders of the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union (GNCTU)
  • 1832. An Address to All Classes in the State. London.
  • 1849. The Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race. London.

Robert Owen wrote numerous works about his system. Of these, the most notable are:

  • the New View of Society
  • the Report communicated to the Committee on the Poor Law
  • the Book of the New Moral World
  • Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race
  • Owen's major works are reprinted in (Gregory Claeys, editor), The Selected Works of Robert Owen

(4 vols., London, Pickering and Chatto, 1993) The Robert Owen Collection, that includes papers and letters as well as copies of pamphlets and books by him and about him is deposited with the National Co-operative Archive, UK.

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