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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 372371, member: 6986&quot;]Robert Owen was a utopian dreamer.&nbsp; You can read more about him on his Wikipedia page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen</a></p><p><br /></p><p>He issued notes for his National Equitable Labour Exchange.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>(From the Trade Union Congress Website <a href="http://www.unionhistory.info/index.php):" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.unionhistory.info/index.php):" rel="nofollow">http://www.unionhistory.info/index.php):</a></p><p>The Exchange originally located in Grays Inn Road, London but from 1833 housed in Charlotte Street, operated as a depot where workers could exchange products they had made by means of labour notes representing hours of work. The Exchange was initially successful and branches opened in South London and Birmingham, but disputes over the value of products and the time taken to make them led to the failure of the experiment and all the branches closed in 1834.</p><p><br /></p><p>The unused notes were overprinted for use as receipts by another merchant after the NELE failed in 1834. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/Owenface.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/owneback.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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