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- noun Plural form of
Owenite .
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My own political mentor, the late Roy Jenkins, once delivered a none too coded warning to the Owenites about the dangers of "a right, tight little party".
Charles Kennedy: Why I couldn't support Clegg's deal with the Tories Charles Kennedy 2010
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Likewise, Wilentz argues that the leadership of Cook's faction had a more professional and manufacturing bent than Owen's faction, but the (n) he is working with (53 Cookites versus 223 Owenites) skews these findings, especially because these numbers reflect a percentage of the votes each faction received in 1830.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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George Henry Evans and other Owenites 'initial tacit approval of the party's agrarian resolutions eroded within weeks.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Another problem for Cook was that the Owenites seemed openly hostile to the institution of marriage.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Owenites up to the charge of being anti-social communitarians. 59
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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When she stayed with the Owenites after merger there was a huge feeling of betrayal amongst Liberal activists who had invested massive resources, time and effort into her election.
Brent East 2003
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When she stayed with the Owenites after merger there was a huge feeling of betrayal amongst Liberal activists who had invested massive resources, time and effort into her election.
Archive 2003-09-01 2003
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Simonians, Owenites, and other utopian socialists tended to concentrate more than their predecessors on the means of getting to utopia rather than on the precise form the new society would have.
UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968
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The Owenites in Britain briefly attracted a following;
PROTEST MOVEMENTS PETER N. STEARNS 1968
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Some Owenites tried to put the labor theory into practice by setting up labor-exchanges, stores where workmen brought products to receive “scrip” stating their labor-time value, to be sold to others on the same terms; they were short-lived.
ECONOMIC HISTORY FRANK H. KNIGHT 1968
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