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New Harmony

Published on Dec 24, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

New Harmony

Photo by Claudio.Ar

OUR SOCIETY'S MISSION

"To serve as a model for...equality for all."

OUR FOUNDER

  • Result of widespread poverty after Napoleonic
  • Welsh inventor born in the late 1700's
  • Formers factory owner
  • Traveled To US after seeing atrocities of Ind. Rev.

Society's Problems

  • Lack of education
  • Class division
  • Religious Conflict
  • Inflation and Economic Depression
  • Unreasonable work hours/conditions

Problems Cont.

  • Gender Roles
  • Powerful/negative influences of Industrial Rev.

How We Plan to Fix those Problems

  • Equal education for all
  • Equal work/equal pay
  • Secular Society
  • "Time Money" "Time Stores" system
  • 8 hours of work, 8 hours of play, 8 hours of rest

WHY NEW HARMONY?

  • A soceity of mutual respect
  • Free from class systems
  • Free of religious contrversy
  • Education to better ourselves and our youth
  • Equality for all

"HOW WE SPEND OUR DAYS, IS OF COURSE HOW WE SPEND OUR LIVES"

Photo by Kay Gaensler