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Barefoot children in a ‘fine room’: Robert Owen, Adam Smith, and social regeneration in Scotland (2020)

Lambert, Cornelia C. (Author)

Routledge
Pages: 19

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Children Identity Moral and ethical aspects Social sciences 19th century 18th century Scotland

This chapter argues that New Lanark was a social laboratory, one designed by Owen to both depend upon, and subvert, Smithian social sympathy. While these interpretations of Owen’s work are valid, they largely ignore how Owen’s first venture in community-building was in keeping with a variety of cultural trends, namely notions of social sympathy, the reformation of the body in burgeoning capitalism, and the roles that ‘Romantic experience’ played in the development of personal character and identity. In the nursery playground provided for infants ‘from the time they can walk alone,’ the New Lanark village’s youngest members were exposed to social principles that taught them to discipline their own behaviors in accordance with an internal moral guide, which Smith had called ‘the inhabitant of the breast,’ or ‘the impartial spectator.’ The performance-based curriculum of Owen’s Institute provided ample opportunities for audiences to reevaluate the pauper in Smith’s social looking glass.

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