Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905-1914 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb's ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major plays like Getting Married, Misalliance, and Pygmalion, and to understand that his major political work, 1928's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism had its roots in this period before the Great War. As both the era's leading dramatist and leader of the Fabian Society, Shaw proposed his radical postulate of equal incomes as a solution to those twin scourges of a modern industrial society: poverty and inequality. Set against the backdrop of Beatrice Webb's famous Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law 1905-1909 - a publication which led to grass-roots campaigns against destitution and eventually the Welfare State - this book considers how Shaw worked with Fabian colleagues, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and H. G. Wells to explore through a series of major lectures, prefaces and plays, the social, economic, political, and even religious implications of human equality as the basis for modern democracy.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Release date:	March 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Peter Gahan
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	219
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-48441-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	3-319-48441-9
Barcode:	9783319484419

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