Paternalism and Democracy in the Politics of Robert Owen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9967960 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Claeys (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-207 |
| Publication date | 1982-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859000007380 |
| OpenAlex | W2105085971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Popular conceptions of the politics of Robert Owen have changed surprisingly little since the early nineteenth century. Within a short time of the advent of his national campaign for Poor Law reform, Owen came under attack from radical parliamentary reformers on the grounds of his ostensible political conservatism. Among the rumours then afloat among the reformers, Richard Carlile later wrote, one was “that Mr. Owen was an instrument of the Government, to bring forward this plan of providing for the lower and poorer classes, for the purpose of drawing their attention from Parliamentary Reform”
Conservatism · Democracy · Economic history · Government (linguistics · Paternalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Legal and Social Philosophy · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2025 (40) |
| Highly cited | No |