Robert Owen and His Legacy

Informationen zum Autor Noel Thompson is Professor of History and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Swansea University. Chris Williams is Professor of Welsh History and Director of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities at Swansea University. Klappentext A radical thinker and humanitarian employer! Owen made a major contribution to nineteenth-century social movements including co-operatives! trade unions and workers' education. He was a pioneer of enlightened approaches to the education of children and an advocate of birth control. Zusammenfassung A radical thinker and humanitarian employer! Owen made a major contribution to nineteenth-century social movements including co-operatives! trade unions and workers' education. He was a pioneer of enlightened approaches to the education of children and an advocate of birth control.

Product details

• Authors: Noel Thompson, Chris Williams, Chris/ Thompson Williams
• Assisted by: Noel Thompson (Editor), Chris Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.02.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9780708324424
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2442-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Robert, Scotland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Legacy, Owen, his, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies