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This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early socialism in Britain. Drawing from previously unpublished archival sources, this study shows that New Lanark was not merely on the receiving end of Owen’s innovative brand of industrial paternalism, but also acted as a major source of inspiration for many aspects of his social system, including his desire to remodel society along communitarian lines. This book  therefore reaffirms the centrality of New Lanark as the cradle of socialism in Britain, and provides a contextualised, social history of Owen’s ideas, tracing direct continuities between his early years as a paternalistic businessman, and his later career as a radical political leader. In doing so, it eschews the myth of New Lanark as a unidimensional ‘model’ village and addresses the ambiguities of Owen’s journey from paternalism to socialism.

Socialism --- Utopian socialism. --- History. --- Owen, Robert, --- Social reformers. --- New Lanark Establishment. --- Reformers --- Oʹen, Robert, --- Oven, Robert, --- Ouėn, Robert, --- Ou-wen, --- Ou-wen, Lo-po-tʻe, --- One of His Majesty's justices of peace for the county of Lanark, --- אואן, רוברט, --- אוען, ראבערט, --- Great Britain-History. --- Intellectual life-History. --- Social history. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- History, Modern. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Intellectual Studies. --- Social History. --- History of Modern Europe. --- Modern History. --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Great Britain—History. --- Intellectual life—History. --- Europe—History—1492-.

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Au XIXe siècle, les premiers penseurs et mouvements socialistes se sont enthousiasmés et inquiétés devant le déferlement des techniques annonçant la transformation du travail, l’accélération des transports ou la communication intégrale. Qu’il s’agisse des saint-simoniens, des fouriéristes ou des communistes, tous ont cherché à dompter le nouvel univers machinique pour le mettre au service de l’émancipation. Face aux ravages de la civilisation capitaliste, comment réguler les objets techniques ? Comment les mettre au service de la coopération et du progrès contre les appropriations indues et leurs potentiels destructeurs ? Ces questions toujours vives étaient déjà au cœur de leurs projets.

Economics --- History --- socialisme --- XIXe siècle --- technologie --- histoire intellectuelle --- machinisme