The term Owenism derives from the British social reformer and industrialist Robert Owen (1771-1858). The term was already current in his lifetime, during the 1820s and 1830s, to describe his concepts and projects of social philosophy and as shorthand for the utopian socialist movements that drew inspiration from him (Utopian socialism 3.2.). In this context, Owenism primarily denoted various forms of self-organization of workers within the fledgling coop…