 For example, the Edinburgh Practical Society created by the founders of Orbiston operated a co-operative store to raise the capital for the community.Abram Combe, the leader of that community, was to author the pamphlet "The Sphere for Joint Stock Companies" (1825), which made clear that Orbiston was not to be a self-subsistent commune, but a co-operative trading endeavor.For the majority of Owenites who did not live in these utopian communities, the working-class Owenite tradition was composed of three overlapping institutions