ABSTRACT
This first volume will showcase the richness and diversity of the Owenite movement, which spanned decades (from Owen’s first published books in 1813-16 to the late 1840s), political allegiances, genders and continents. This volume therefore calls for a variety of sources not easily available elsewhere - including books, pamphlets, correspondence and newspaper articles - and a variety of often overlapping voices - from Chartists to early co-operators, secularists, non-British Owenites and proponents of women’s rights. The sheer range of Owenite ventures (intentional communities, co-operatives, labour exchanges and experiments in popular education) will be covered, thus blending social and political history. The attempt to map the Owenite movement will eventually lead to the identification of its shared, core principles and values: internationalism, co-operation, concepts of political change, and above all, the ideal of community.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|27 pages
Work as it was and how it Might be
part 2|50 pages
Visions of the Future
part 3|74 pages
Concepts of Political Change
part 4|57 pages
Political Economy
part 5|54 pages
Ways of Organising
part 6|50 pages
Democracy and the State
part 7|43 pages
The New Religion and the Old
part 8|41 pages
Gender, Sexuality and Family Relations
part 9|65 pages
War, Peace and Internationalism