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What is Ahead of Us?
G.D.H. Cole, Arthur S Alter, Wickham Steed, Sidney Webb, P. M. S. Blackett, …
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R2,703
Discovery Miles 27 030
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First published in 1937, What is Ahead of Us? is a collection of
essays, which were originally presented as lectures before the
Fabian Society. Conceived in an era of growing fascism and economic
despair, the essays urge the reader to imagine more equitable
alternatives to capitalism. The authors offer socialism as a
solution but what is more interesting is their criticism of
capitalism and the connections they draw between capitalism and
fascism using examples from the West. This book will be of interest
to students of history, economics and political science.
Originally published in 1968, English Prisons Under Local
Government gives a detailed account of the evolution of the English
Prison System from the common gaol and the house of correction of
the sixteenth century down to the statutory changes of the
twentieth century, and survey the successive efforts at reform of
John Howard and Elizabeth Fry, Jeremy Bentham and James Neild, Sir
T. Fowell Buxton and J. J.Gurney. The origin and development of the
cellular system, the treadwheel and the crank, the penal dietary
and the 'system of progressive stages' all come under review,
together with the administrative changes made by Sir Edmund Du Cane
and Sir Evelyn Ruggles, and the reforms during the first part of
the 20th century.
Originally published in 1963, this volume is devoted to an analysis
of the organisation of the Commissioners of Sewers, the
Incorporated Guardians of the Poor, the Turnpike Trusts and the
Improvement Commissioners, and depicts the important development of
these bodies during the eighteenth century. By examining the
constitutional features of these statutory authorities Mr. &
Mrs. Webb support their main contention that here are to be found
the beginnings of most of the Local Government services of the
present day. But to most readers the chief interest of this volume
will lie in the last two chapters, which analyse the whole
development of English Local Government from the Revolution to the
Municipal Corporations Act. This description of how the 'Old
Principles' between 1689 and 1835 were gradually superseded by the
'New Principles' affords a convenient summary of the first four
volumes.
Originally published in 1963, this volume is devoted to an analysis
of the organisation of the Commissioners of Sewers, the
Incorporated Guardians of the Poor, the Turnpike Trusts and the
Improvement Commissioners, and depicts the important development of
these bodies during the eighteenth century. By examining the
constitutional features of these statutory authorities Mr. &
Mrs. Webb support their main contention that here are to be found
the beginnings of most of the Local Government services of the
present day. But to most readers the chief interest of this volume
will lie in the last two chapters, which analyse the whole
development of English Local Government from the Revolution to the
Municipal Corporations Act. This description of how the 'Old
Principles' between 1689 and 1835 were gradually superseded by the
'New Principles' affords a convenient summary of the first four
volumes.
First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of
the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards
pauperism from the 'Revolution of 1834' to the Majority and
Minority Reports of 1909. In their preface to this volume the Webbs
wrote: "What obscured the history was the manner in which masses of
heterogeneous facts were heaped together. To read, one after
another, these complicated Orders and lengthy Reports, each dealing
with all kinds of paupers and various methods of relief, was but to
accumulate confusion. They resembled a heap of geological
conglomerates which could not be assayed until they had been broken
up in such a way as to sort the different materials into separate
homogeneous parcels". This book succeeds in presenting a masterly
survey of this sector of the British social services on the eve of
the foundation of the Welfare State, and completes the corpus of
the Webbs on the Poor Law.
First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of
the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards
pauperism from the 'Revolution of 1834' to the Majority and
Minority Reports of 1909. In their preface to this volume the Webbs
wrote: "What obscured the history was the manner in which masses of
heterogeneous facts were heaped together. To read, one after
another, these complicated Orders and lengthy Reports, each dealing
with all kinds of paupers and various methods of relief, was but to
accumulate confusion. They resembled a heap of geological
conglomerates which could not be assayed until they had been broken
up in such a way as to sort the different materials into separate
homogeneous parcels". This book succeeds in presenting a masterly
survey of this sector of the British social services on the eve of
the foundation of the Welfare State, and completes the corpus of
the Webbs on the Poor Law.
Originally published in 1968, English Prisons Under Local
Government gives a detailed account of the evolution of the English
Prison System from the common gaol and the house of correction of
the sixteenth century down to the statutory changes of the
twentieth century, and survey the successive efforts at reform of
John Howard and Elizabeth Fry, Jeremy Bentham and James Neild, Sir
T. Fowell Buxton and J. J.Gurney. The origin and development of the
cellular system, the treadwheel and the crank, the penal dietary
and the 'system of progressive stages' all come under review,
together with the administrative changes made by Sir Edmund Du Cane
and Sir Evelyn Ruggles, and the reforms during the first part of
the 20th century.
A diary recording the authors' extended tour of the Far East. It
focuses on their impressions as the ancient civilizations of Japan,
China and India, each in their separate ways, came to terms with
the modern world.
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