and not in 1844 as we have always been ‘told’. They were born in Scotland in the early 1800s: The Socialist Cotton Mill was the first to take care of the workers’ meals and welfare. Access to healthy, speculation-free food, nutritional education, decent housing, medical care: if workers’ welfare exists today, it is also due to the utopia of New Lanark. Below my great-grandfather a cooperator, in Albiate (MB).
