New Lanark: Robert Owen’s Great Social Experiment (PieceWork, Fall 2021)

Woman in a green dress wearing a blue hand knit shawl.

Although it’s still summer, the Fall issue of Piecework is arriving! This issue follows stories of how textiles have acted as “Threads of Change.” My article follows the history of the New Lanark textile mill which eagle eyed readers may recognize in my banner photograph! I explain how the nineteenth century social reformer Robert Owen […]