A New View of Society and Other Writings
Author: Claeys, Gregory
ISBN: 9780140433487
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 Jan 1991
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
Major work by one of the greatest British social reformers
In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation ofmankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', a full-scale reorganization of British society, major reforms of working practices and the Poor Laws and the establishment of co-operative model.
ISBN: 9780140433487
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 Jan 1991
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
Major work by one of the greatest British social reformers
In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation ofmankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', a full-scale reorganization of British society, major reforms of working practices and the Poor Laws and the establishment of co-operative model.
