Robert Owen and New Lanark
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Explore the ideas of Robert Owen, a visionary or a charlatan, who addressed hotly debated issues like childcare, education, working conditions, healthcare, and crime in the early 1800s. Understand his Enlightenment ideas and how his experience at New Lanark influenced his social reform agenda. Discover the main proposals in his essays and learn about New Lanark’s role as a model for social reform.
Childcare, education, working conditions, healthcare, crime: these issues are hotly debated in today’s society. They are also issues that Robert Owen, seen by some as a visionary and by others as a knave and a charlatan, sought to address in the early 1800s. This free course, Robert Owen and New Lanark, uses a series of essays written by Owen to explore the ideas of this important and controversial figure.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Understand the Enlightenment ideas that underpinned Robert Owen’s social reform agenda
Understand how Owen’s background and experience at New Lanark fed through into his thinking in the essays in A New View of Society
Understand the main proposals in the essays
Understand New Lanark’s role as a model for social reform during this period.
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