Social reformers

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 707   Yvert: 791   Scott: 782   Gibbons: 484  

Perforation type: 14 ¾x14 ¼

Subject:

10 pences. Child's hands, textile mill details.

Additional:

*The stamp is mentioned to Robert Owen (14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) - a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of socialism and the cooperative movement.

The plot of stamp introduces us to the social experiment at New Lanark, part of which was the prohibition of child labor.

At beginning of 1800's Owen's work at New Lanark continued to have a national and even a European significance. His schemes for the education of his workers attained to something like completion on the opening of the institution at New Lanark in 1816. He was a zealous supporter of the factory legislation resulting in the Factory Act of 1819, which greatly disappointed him. He had interviews and communications with the leading members of government, including the premier, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Liverpool, and with many of the rulers and leading statesmen of Europe.

 

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This information has been taken from Wikipedia