# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-owen
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:46:21.845Z

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name: "Robert Owen"
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description: "A Welsh mill owner who got rich on textiles, then sank his fortune into communes that collapsed — but the blueprint stuck. Owen gave the world the co-op, the crèche, and the idea that workers might deserve better than twelve-hour days at age seven."
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deathDate: "1858-11-17"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Owen trained as a draper in Stamford, moved to Manchester at eighteen, and by the early 1800s had made his money running a textile mill at New Lanark in Scotland. There he tested his theories: better conditions, schools that taught character over job skills, collective child-rearing. In 1824 he took most of his wealth to Indiana and built New Harmony, an experimental socialistic community that folded after two years. Other Owenite ventures failed the same way. He returned to London in 1828 and spent the next three decades organizing co-operatives, building the trade union movement, and pushing for child labour laws and free co-educational schools — a second act built from the rubble of the first.