Robert Owen Research Paper

Robert Owen owned a textile mill in Scotland at the beginning of the nineteenth century and was one of the founders of Utopian Socialism. The observations he made of the working excessively harsh and tortorous working conditions of his mill workers, from 1799 to 1793 inspired him to formulate and write his first of a series of essays titled A New View of Society. Many considered his ideas groundbreaking and the forefront of labor reform and the formation of socialist and communist ideals worldwide. He claims that Man's Character is formed for him by his environment and his society. But his research at the time of his essay was based solely on his own observations from his own mills. This lack of diversification in his research subjects represents a flaw that made his conclusions premature. Only later would his theories become fully developed by more substantial research by himself and others.

Robert Owen was born in 1771 in a small market town in Montgomeryshire, Wales. His father was a saddler and ironmonger. His mother came from a prosperous farmer family in Montgomeryshire. Owens received almost all his school education in the town of his mother's family, but his education ended when he was ten. In 1787, he moved and settled in London. He was

In the last, the reverse must follow, and dissatisfaction among all the agents and instrument interested or occupied in the general process, which cannot fail to create great loss"(Owen, "A New"). Owen is trying to show the similarity to how, if workers are well cared for and kept healthy and able to work, they would become much more productive and efficient. Again, Owen cites no research or data, but given his experience in managing textile mills his opinion may be considered expert on this