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  1. 1771-1858. British socialist, born in Wales.
  2. In 1800 he became manager of a mill at New
  3. Lanark, Scotland, where by improving working
  4. and housing conditions and providing schools
  5. he created a model community. His ideas
  6. stimulated the co-operative movement. From
  7. 1817 Owen proposed that `villages of
  8. cooperation', self-supporting communities run
  9. on socialist lines, should be founded; these,
  10. he believed, would ultimately replace private
  11. ownership. His later attempt to run such a
  12. community in the USA failed.
  13.