Owenism

Noun

Owenism (uncountable)

1. The utopian socialist philosophy of Robert Owen.
   • When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come.1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 167
   • Owen, who became the manager of the enterprise 200 years ago, adopted the principles of the social market, so pivotal to the social democracy of today. ‘Owenism’ provided the country's first nursery, schooling for workers' children long before it was compulsory, welfare benefits and, most...1990 August 8, Peter Hetherington, “The lament of the Clyde”, in The Guardian