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Pronunciation: [ɹˈɒbət ˈə͡ʊən] (IPA)

Robert Owen was a social philosopher, entrepreneur, and reformer who lived in the late 18th and early 19th century. He is widely considered to be one of the founders of the cooperative movement and a champion of workers' rights. As such, there are several synonyms that can be used to describe Owen. These include social reformer, cooperative advocate, workers' advocate, labor activist, philosopher, businessman, and community organizer. Each of these terms encapsulates a different aspect of Owen's life and work, demonstrating the breadth of his impact on society. Despite being relatively unknown in mainstream history, Owen's legacy is still felt in the cooperative and labor movements today.

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  • There is a class of minds, of which I consider Robert Owen and Fanny Wright as specimens, who, while wanting in that fine mental balance called common sense, are supplied with a large amount of enthusiasm.
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  • The modern history of Europe is littered with the projects of the politics of Rationalism. The most sublime of these is, perhaps, that of Robert Owen for 'a world convention to emancipate the human race from ignorance, poverty, division, sin and misery' - so sublime that even a Rationalist (but without much justification) might think it eccentric. But not less characteristic are the diligent search of the present generation for an innocuous power which may safely be made so great as to be able to control all other powers in the human world, and the common disposition to believe that political machinery can take the place of moral and political education.
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  • Of the early management pioneers, history has provided us with the best records for four men: Robert Owen, Charles Babbage, Andrew Ure, and Charles Dupin.
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