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Robert Owen

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Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)

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Every social movement, every real advance in England on behalf of the workers links itself on to the name of Robert Owen. He forced through in 1819, after five years' fighting, the first law limiting the hours of labor of women and children in factories.
Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
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As a whole, this report testifies to the gradual but sure introduction of the factory system into all branches of industry, recognisable especially by the employment of women and children. I have not thought it necessary to trace in every case the progress of machinery and the superseding of men as workers.
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892
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The scheme gradually unfolded by the St. Simonians, under which the labour and capital of society would be managed for the general account of the community, every individual being required to take a share of labour, either as thinker, teacher, artist, or producer, all being classed according to their capacity, and remunerated according to their work, appeared to me a far superior description of Socialism to Owen's…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
Close in meaning to Robert Owen; the term itself is not named.
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