Owenism
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Instead, the lasting influence of Owenism was in workers organization, with the Owenites helping to organize a number of influential early trade unions, culminating in the London Working Men’s Association in 1836.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Nevertheless, their critique of Owenism expresses as succinctly and forcibly as anything yet written the attitude of the socialists toward the economics of modern syndicalism.
From Violence and the Labor Movement by Robert Hunter
In Professor Sombart's study, Owenism, indeed, has an important place, since the striking element in it is something that the present movement has completely put away, namely, utopianism.
From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Werner Sombart
It was at Leicester, a place seething with social experiment in its small provincial way, with secularism, Owenism, anti-vaccination, and much else, that Lomax fell a victim to one 'ism the more—to vegetarianism.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Thus our theory harmonizes Owenism with Fourierism, and regards them both as working toward the same end in American history.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
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