George Jacob Holyoake-Robert Owen correspondence [manuscript]. 1830-1905.

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George Jacob Holyoake-Robert Owen correspondence [manuscript]. 1830-1905.

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Letters on emigration, the Gerald Supple case in Victoria 1870, the cooperative movement and politics (including letters from Parkes on Federation). Many of the letters are written from and about Victoria.

4 cm.

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Owen, Robert L., 1940-

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Born in Newtown, Great Britain 1771, died in Newtown 1858; cooperator and utopian socialist; made name as an educational philanthropist during his management of the industrial community New Lanark, Scotland; agitated for factory reform; founded New Harmony, a communitarian experiment in the USA 1825-1828; back in Britain launched the National Equitable Labour Exchange in 1832, the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union in 1834 and the Association of All Classes of All Nations in 1835; continue...

Co-operative Union (Great Britain)

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Holyoake, George-Jacob 1817-1906

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George Jacob Holyoake was an English social reformer. His father was a smith, and Holyoake worked in the foundry, before encountering the socialist ideas of Robert Owen. He became a Chartist and teacher, and also wrote and edited socialist periodicals. Imprisoned for condemning Christianity, he founded the important socialist journal The Reasoner. He also opposed government censorship of the press, and worked for tax reform and other causes. From the description of George Jacob Holyo...