ROBERT OWEN AND THE UTOPIAN SOCIALISM
The father of cooperative has created a New Harmony Hall in Great Britain.
At these dates of 1840, Robert Owen has founded a new Harmony Hall in Great Britain in order to end with the bad conditions of workers in factories.
As he done before in 1800s in Scotland, inaugurating the New Larkan Hill, in order to improve the conditions of workers in factories, where he also formed the Mill Industry providing good live conditions, a 10-hour day journal, free school for their kids, and other incentives designed to encourage good living conditions. There he reduced work to an 8-hour day and
proclaimed that workers should have the right to 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours of recreation. Then a few years later in 1816 he expanded his Utopian aims beyond the factory, proposing a 2500 community whose he created in 1825 in America (Indiana). There all people work together, happily, doing domestic labors, which is the purpose the father of cooperative have, as he said once: 'I am come to this country to introduce an entire new system of society; to change it from an ignorant, selfish system to an enlightened social system which shall gradually unite all interests into one and remove all causes for contest between individuals.'
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