How Did Robert Owen Contribute To The Industrial Revolution
My source is an interview with a clothier that explains the conditions and behaviours of children who work in the mills. Robert Owen, a British socialist, was born on 14 May 1771 at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales. In 1799, Owen purchased the mills in New Lanark, Scotland. The employees' well-being, including a few hundred poor children, were highly regarded by Owen and the mills were producing high quality products which made them famous. Owen wanted to remove the competitive economy by adding his own ideas into the economy with his growing fame, but he lost a few supporters with his attack on religion at a meeting in London. In 1825, after purchasing New Harmony, he experimented his ideas in the community, failed after a few years and lost a part of his wealth. He then return to England and wrote a book to spread his ideas: Book of the New Moral World. As new revolutionary forces and leaders
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On 17 November 1858, he passed away in Newtown, Wales. The document was written during the industrial revolution, "...which took place in Great Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and in other European countries and America after 1815..." (Levack, Muir, and Veldman 655). This revolution included four major developments: using mineral sources of energy, concentrating labor in factories, new industrial technology and methods of transportation (Levack, Muir, and Veldman 655). In the late eighteenth century, coal oil and uranium replaced organic sources of energy because they were more efficient. This made the production and transportation of goods much easier (Levack, Muir, and Veldman 659). Mechanized factories also increased during the Industrial Revolution. These factories had many advantages over the rural industrial cottage and the large urban handicraft workshop: "... the entrepreneur could reduce the cost of labor and transportation, exercise tighter control over the quality of goods, and increase productivity by concentrating
On 17 November 1858, he passed away in Newtown, Wales. The document was written during the industrial revolution, "...which took place in Great Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and in other European countries and America after 1815..." (Levack, Muir, and Veldman 655). This revolution included four major developments: using mineral sources of energy, concentrating labor in factories, new industrial technology and methods of transportation (Levack, Muir, and Veldman 655). In the late eighteenth century, coal oil and uranium replaced organic sources of energy because they were more efficient. This made the production and transportation of goods much easier (Levack, Muir, and Veldman 659). Mechanized factories also increased during the Industrial Revolution. These factories had many advantages over the rural industrial cottage and the large urban handicraft workshop: "... the entrepreneur could reduce the cost of labor and transportation, exercise tighter control over the quality of goods, and increase productivity by concentrating