Five (5) major works in one volume:

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1) A New View of Society: or, Essays on the Formation of the Human Character preparatory to the development of a plan for gradually ameliorating the condition of Mankind. (In Four Essays ...). 4th edition. London: Longman, 1818. (viii, 176pp.); 2) An Address delivered to the Inhabitants of New Lanark, on the First of January, 1816, at the Opening of the Institution established for the Formation of Character. 3rd edition. London: Longman, 1817. (48pp.); 3) Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System: With hints for the Improvement of those parts of it which are most injurious to health and morals. ... 3rd edition. To which are added Two Letters, On the Employment of Children in Manufactories, and a Letter, On the Union of Churches and Schools. London: Longman 1818. (44, ii pp.); 4) Two Memorials on behalf of the Working Classes; the First presented to the Governments of Europe and America, the Second to the Allied Powers assembled in Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle. London: Longman, 1818. (28pp.). 1st edition; 5) New View of Society. Tracts relative to this Subject; viz. Proposals for Raising a College of Industry of all useful Trades and Husbandry. By John Bellers ...; Report to the Committee of the Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor; A Brief Sketch of the religious Society of People called Shakers; With an Account of the Public Proceedings ... which took place in London in July and August 1817. London: Longman, 1818. (II, 44, 24, 16, 84pp.). 1st Collected edition. These five works are bound in one volume. Royal 8vo. Old plain paper boards with calf spine and printed paper titling label to spine. Uncut. Occasional foxing. A rare offering of ground-breaking treatises by the distinguished pioneer socialist, Robert Owen (1771-1858). He acquired New Lanarch textile mills at Manchester together with partners William Allen and Jeremy Bentham, where he initiated a program of amelioration in conditions of the workers, especially stopping employment of children. He established sickness and old-age insurance, and opened educational and recreational facilities. He was instrumental in drafting the Factory Act of 1819, emasculated in the House of Commons.