Jamie Smith, Alaska’s top cartoonist, and my friend and occasional lecture partner, recently met with me to go over cover art he created for me, and, in the course of
Remembering Owen-father of co-op movement
UK born Robert Owen is held as the father of the co-operative movement, as far as western concept of the term is understood. Owen was born this month on May 14 and UK Cooperatives is celebrating his birthday.
Cooperatives UK tweeted “Today is the 250th anniversary of Robert Owen’s birth. He is known as the ‘Father of Co-operation’, but who was he and why was he so important to #coops? Read this blog”.
Describing Owen Wikipedia writes “a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, was one founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.”