New Books (part IV)
'Quest for the New Moral World' by John F. C. Harrison. A history of the #Owenist movement in #Britain and the #USA Robert Owen was a #bourgeois philanthropist, factory-reformer and #Utopian #Socialist thinker who, by the mid-1820's, had somewhat ironically become the figurehead of a genuinely working-class based #political #trade_union and #CoOperative movement. The Owenists would be a major influence on #Marx and the #Chartists in the #1840s
