The British cotton manufacturer Robert Owens sought to
A. reduce the number of women working in factories.
B. establish a socialist utopian working environment.
C. establish an eight-hour work day for all workers.
D. place a high tariff on imports in order to increase the profits of industrialists.
E. prohibit the construction of factories within city limits.
Answer: B
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