what do you know about Robert Owen ? ( write in brief answer type )
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Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
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About Robert Owen:-
- Robert Owen was a businessman and social activist who sought to bring in new utopian ideals for business and local communities.
- His New Lanark textile factory in Scotland was an influential experiment in improving the conditions of factory workers.
- Owen was an early socialist, co-operative and utopian thinker and is often termed the ‘father of British socialism’.
- Robert Owen was born in Newtown, mid-Wales on 14th May 1771. His father, also called Robert Owen, was an ironmonger.
- At the age of 10, he was taken away from school and sent to work as an apprentice at a local drapers in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
- After three years apprenticeship, he moved briefly to London, before finding work at a large drapery business in Manchester.
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