A New View of Society and Other Writings

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 of mankind’ 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 c…