Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on poverty and equality in the Modern World, 1905--1914 /

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 and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on pover...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gahan, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Colección:Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
Temas:
Shaw, Bernard, > 1856-1950.
Webb, Beatrice, > 1858-1943.
Shaw, Bernard, > 1856-1950
Webb, Beatrice, > 1858-1943
Poverty.
Equality.
Poverty
Pauvreté.
poverty.
Social & cultural history.
Cultural studies.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Theatre studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Equality
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. 1884-1904, Introduction
  • Chapter 2. 1905, Poverty, Salvation, and the Poor Law Commission
  • Chapter 3. 1905-1909, Noises Off
  • Chapter 4. 1909, The Minority Report
  • Chapter 5. 1910, Campaign for the Prevention of Destitution
  • Chapter 6. 1911, Travels
  • Chapter 7. 1912, War on Poverty
  • Chapter 8. 1913, The New Statesman and the Fabian Research Department
  • Chapter 9. 1914, Redistribution and War
  • Chapter 10.1915-1950, Epilogue
  • Bibliography.

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