Gregory Claeys, ed. Selected Works of Robert Owen.

CONTENTS

Volume I

Early Writings

General Introduction

Bibliography of the Writings of Robert Owen

Observations on the Cotton Trade (1803)

Mr Owen’s Speech at a Public Dinner … given to Joseph Lancaster (1812)

A Statement regarding the New Lanark Establishment (1812)

A New View of Society; or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character (1813–16)

Observations on the Cotton Trade (1815)

Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System (1815)

Address delivered to the Inhabitants of New Lanark (1816)

Report to the Committee of the Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor (1817)

Letter published in the London Newspapers of July 30th, 1817 (1817)

Letter published in the London Newspapers of August 9th, 1817 (1817)

Address delivered at the City of London Tavern, on Thursday, August 14th (1817)

Letter published in the London Newspapers of August 19th, 1817 (1817)

New State of Society – Address delivered at the City of London Tavern, on Thursday, August 21st (1817)

Peace on Earth – Good Will towards Men! Development of the Plan for the Relief of the Poor (1817)

Address dated September 19th, 1817, on Measures for the Immediate Relief of the Poor (1817)

Letter to the Earl of Liverpool on the Employment of Children in Manufactories (1818)

Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the Union of Churches and Schools (1818)

Two Memorials on behalf of the Working Class (1818)

Address to the Master-Manufacturers of Great Britain on the Present existing Evils in the Manufacturing System (1819)

Address to the Working Classes (1819)

Report to the County of Lanark (1821)

An Attempt to explain the Commercial and Other Difficulties which are now experienced in the Civilized Parts of the World (1821), in R. N. Bacon, A Report of the Holkham Sheep Shearing, pp. 118–24

Permanent Relief for the British Agricultural and Manufacturing Labourers (?1822)

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Volume II

The Development of Socialism

Two Discourses on a New System of Society (1825)

Address delivered by Robert Owen … on 27 April 1825 (New Harmony Gazette, vol. 1, 1825, pp. 1-3)

Oration containing a Declaration of Mental Independence (New Harmony, 1826)

The Social System (New Harmony Gazette, vol. 2, 1826-7)

Address to the Agriculturists, Mechanics and Manufacturers, both Masters and Operatives, of Great Britain and Ireland (1827)

Memorial of Robert Owen to the Mexican Republic (1828)

The Addresses of Robert Owen (1830)

The New Religion (1830)

Second Lecture on The New Religion (1830)

Outline of the Rational System of Society

Robert Owen’s Reply to the Question, ‘What would you do if you were Prime Minister of England’? (? 1832)

The Address of Robert Owen at the Great Public Meeting, held at the National Equitable Labour Exchange

Address to the Trades’ Unions, The Crisis (1833-4), vol. 3, pp. 156-7

‘Proposals for a Change of System’, The Crisis (1834), vol. 3, pp. 180-6

The Charter of the Rights of Humanity (1834)

Lectures on the Marriages of the Priesthood of the Old Immoral World (Leeds, 1835)

The Catechism of the New Moral World (1835)

A Development of the Principles and Plans on which to establish Self-supporting Home Colonies (1841)

The Signs of the Times

Preliminary Charter of the Rational System (1843)

‘To the Men and Women of France’ (Northern Star, 11 March 1848, p. 6)

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Volume III

The Book of the New Moral World

Introductory Note

THE BOOK OF THE NEW MORAL WORLD

First Part (1842)

Second Part (1842)

Third Part (1842)

Fourth Part (1844)

Fifth Part (1844)

Sixth Part (1844)

Seventh Part (1844)

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Volume IV

The Life of Robert Owen

Introductory Note

The Life of Robert Owen, written by Himself, vol. 1 (1857)

Appendix: Owen’s Account of some later Events

Consolidated Index to Volumes 1-4