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19 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pus.10058
- isbn: 9782868205513
- eisbn: 9791034404803
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Christian Auer, « 58. Robert Owen and Child Labour, 1816 », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10.4000/books.pus.10058
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Robert Owen (1771-1858) was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire in Wales. During a series of business trips in the West of Scotland he visited the cotton-spinning village of New Lanark which he purchased in 1799, thus becoming the manager of one of the largest cotton spinning plants in Scotland. New Lanark became the place where Owen put into practice his social and economic theories. Owen was convinced that good working conditions would give him a loyal and productive work-force and improve the...