Selected Works of Robert Owen
Editor: Gregory Claeys
The Pickering Masters
978 1 85196 088 0: 234x156mm: £350.00/$625.00
Japan: availiability: Kinokuniya
Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the nineteenth-century.
He achieved early fame as manager of the most productive cotton mills of his time at New Lanark, near Glasgow, but, dissatisfied with the effects of industry on the working classes, he attempted social and economic reform, finally arguing that all mankind should live in co-operative communities. By the 1840s he had a substantial following and model communities were founded at New Harmony, Indiana and Queenswood, Hampshire, among others.
Contents
Volume 1: Early Writings
Observations on the Cotton Trade of Great Britain (1803), A Statement Regarding the New Lanark Establishment (1812), A New View of Society; or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of Human Character (1813-14), Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System (1815), Address Delivered to the Inhabitants of New Lanark (1816), Peace on Earth - Good Will Towards Men! Development of the Plan for the Relief of the Poor (1817), Mr Owen's Report to the Committee of the Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor (1817), A Letter to the Earl of Liverpool on the Employment of Children in Manufactories (1818), Two Memorials on Behalf of the Working Class (1818), An Address to the Working Classes (1819), An Address to the Master Manufacturers of Great Britain on the Present Existing Evils of the Manufacturing System (1819)
Volume 2: The Development of Socialism
Report to the County of Lanark (1821), An Attempt to Explain the Commercial and Other Difficulties Which are Now Experienced in the Civilised Parts of the World (1821), Permanent Relief for the British Agricultural and Manufacturing Labourers (1822), `The Social System' (New Harmony Gazette vol 2, 1825), Second Discourse on a New System of Society (1827), Oration Containing a Declaration of Mental Independence (1826), Memorial of Robert Owen to the Mexican Republic (1827), The New Religion (1830), Outline of the Rational System of Society (1830), Robert Owen's Reply to the Question `What Would You Do If You Were Prime Minister of England? (1832), The Charter of the Rights of Humanity (1834), Lectures on the Marriages of the Priesthood of the Old Immoral World (1838), The Catechism of the New Moral World (1838), The Development of the Principles and Plans on Which to Establish Self-Supporting Home Colonies (1841), Preliminary Charter of the Rational System (1843)
Volume 3: The Heyday of Owenism
The Book of the New Moral World (1836-44)
Volume 4
The Autobiography of Robert Owen (1858)
Reviews
‘Pickering and Chatto’s Masters series is in every sense one of the most enlightened publishing ventures of our time... it deserves the warmest of welcomes because it makes available much the fullest range of Owen’s writings ever likely to appear in one collection.’
– The Times Higher Education Supplement