And now for a history lesson.

Located just a little bit outside of Glasgow, New Lanark is a mill community that was begun in the 18th century. In the early 19th century, the socialist and industrialist Robert Owen took over the mills from his father-in-law and set out to start a social experiment involving humane living and working conditions for the mill workers. Among other things, he forbade the labor of children under ten, and started the first-ever pre-school. Additionally, he had decent housing for the workers (by the standards of the day), some sort of socialized health care, and a mill store that sold higher quality and cheaper goods than were otherwise available. Despite his mill turning a profit, other investors were obviously unhappy with the expense going to the workers' living conditions, and he wound up buying them out.
After Robert Owen left New Lanark (some 25 years after he arrived), he came over to the United States and, with his sons, attempted to found a Utopian community called New Harmony, in Indiana. This experiment failed, and he returned to England. His sons, however, stayed in America. His oldest became a member of Congress, where he drafted the bill for the founding of the Smithsonian and worked towards women's and widow's rights. Of his other two sons one became a geologist and surveyor and the other a professor of natural science.


I must confess. No, I do not remember all of this, only that I read or heard it while visiting New Lanark. I had to "refresh my memory" via Wikipedia and other websites.