Robert Owen has bought New Lanark Mills
The 27-year-old young bussinessman, Robert Owen, has converted New Lanark Mills in a "Working Paradise" and has provided opportunities for children.
In 1799 Robert Owen, at the age of twenty-seven, ended the purchase of the Dale factory holdings in New Lanark, Scotland, and married Anne Caroline Dale soon there after.
As the manager of the New Lanark Mills, which employed more two thousand people, (including around five hundred children whose working life had begun at the age of five or six when they had left Edinburgh or Glasgow workhouses), Robert Owen introduced a yet more human and progressive employment regime than the one that had been in place under David Dale. No child younger than ten years old was employed and these were allowed relatively decent breaks for meals and some modestly worth while educational opportunities. As far as adult employees went he sought to introduce some new machinery, to improve the flow of work through the factory, and to quietly discourage pilfering and drunkenness.
New Lanark gained international fame when Owen's experiments in enhancing his workers' environment resulted in increased productivity and profit. Robert Owen spent considerable amounts of money on improving housing conditions in New Lanark, arranging the public refuse system, and for the paving of its streets. He also arranged for a company store that sold goods of higher quality and at lower prices than the stores that had previously been available in the area. This store managed to make a profit that Owen diverted towards funding a school for the worker's children leading to the establishment of the first infant school in Great Britain through Owen's support for the educational efforts of James Buchanan.
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El formato papel está bastante bien, pero creo que las columnas podrían quedar mejor y tendríais que tener cuidado con la fecha de la plantilla...
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Ok! Good work!! You still have to pay attention to the date on the paper version. You have 8,50.
ReplyDeleteI really liked your article! Was very interesting knew that Robert Owen had done such amazing things!
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Mónica, thanks for your answer; I think it´s so simple, you should do a bigger effort...
DeleteI liked too much your news! I liked the part where the article says that Robert Owens give the childs the opportunity to study because I don´t know nothing about that. Great work!
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Gook reflection Pablo. Thanks. Try to improve next time.
DeleteI have chosen this article for the note of humanity, since we are speaking about the industrial revolution, where everything was costing, where adults were exploited and furthermore painfully where children were seen as a cheap workforce, it is to be thankful that this man, Robert Owen, was showing something of humanity.
ReplyDeleteThis make us realize the opportunities we have nowadays.
Inés Bajo
I really like your comment Inés. Thanks for your effort.
DeleteI liked your article because, althought we have studied this in class; you had put some interest things like when you talked about the worries of Owen about the children. The video is really good too!
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Thanks for your interest Nuria!!
DeleteI like so much these article because is very interested that Robert Owen converted a town in a Factory
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I would like you to have more interest on this activity...
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ReplyDeleteliked your article a lot since it deals with a subject which we have studied and thanks to this article we can know a little more about this
ReplyDeleteOk Marcos; I´ve seen your comment. Try to make a bigger effort next time!!
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ReplyDeleteI really like your article it’s very interesting and it seems like a real newspaper article. I didn’t know about him before but now I think he had made very interesting and amazing things to help the humanity and the children that were explotaited before . God job !!! Sorry for the mistakes in the other comment . Irene Juan
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