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                          New Lanark was previously owned by David dale and Richard Arkwright, who were Englishman already famous for industrializing cotton spinning south of the border. In 1786 David Dale took sole control and four mills in full operation. For his workforce he turned first to children. Out of a total workforce in 1793 of some 1,150, over 800 were children, many from the orphanages of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Their working day began at 6.00am and continued until 7.00pm. On 1 January 1800, Robert Owen took over the management of David Dale's cotton mills at New Lanark and put into practice the ideas that he had developed earlier in his life and his workers at New Lanark were made to adopt new living, working, sanitary, educational and other standards. New Lanark had a population of 2,000 people, 500 of whom were young children from the poorhouses and charities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Over the f...

New Lanark, (South Lanarkshire, Scotland); 1798-1815; Industrialization and the City New Lanark is situated at South Lanarkshire in Scotland. It is built by Robert Owen who was an utopist from 1798 to 1815. New Lanark is beside the River Clyde and has millworker houses and waterfalls. New Lanark is World heritage recognized village. Before Owen got to the village there were some cotton mills, water wheels, and some mill buildings. Owen focused on the idea of creating the concept of the Garden City and developing social and economic systems among the village. It is renowned as World Heritage because the construction was well designed to fulfill the needs of the villagers, Owen created a model of industrial communities and bring in education, work practices and etc. Robert Owen was a Utopian Socialist who developed Philosophy thinking and developed New Lanark. He also opens new method for Millennial while developing New Lanark. He is also known as a reformer...

  Phalanstère , Charles Fourier ; 1800s; Industrialization and the City The Architect Charles Fourier (1772-1837), full name François-Marie-Charles Fourier, was a French social theorist who advocated a reconstruction of society based on communities of productive individuals known as phalanges (from the Ancient Greek word phalanx – military unit). He argued that a natural social order exists corresponding to Newton’s ordering of the physical universe and that both concepts evolved in eight ascending periods. At the highest stage and when in harmony, man’s emotions would be freely expressed, and to achieve that stage society should be divided into phalanges. He also emphasized on adapting society to human needs and preached on the wastefulness of the capitalist system, a sentiment shared later on by the socialist Karl Marx. The Phalange as An Ideal “A self-contained community of 500-2,000 individuals working for a shared and mutual benefit” ...