04357nam 22006255 450 991025506970332120220331184153.03-319-48442-710.1007/978-3-319-48442-6(CKB)3710000001080014(DE-He213)978-3-319-48442-6(MiAaPQ)EBC4812097(EXLCZ)99371000000108001420170224d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on poverty and equality in the modern world, 1905–1914 /by Peter Gahan1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XXVI, 219 p.)Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,2634-58113-319-48441-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 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.Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,2634-5811Theater—HistorySocial historyEthnology—EuropeBritish literatureLiterature, Modern—20th centuryTheatre Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415010Social Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000British Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411050British and Irish Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000Twentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Theater—History.Social history.Ethnology—Europe.British literature.Literature, Modern—20th century.Theatre History.Social History.British Culture.British and Irish Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.792.09Gahan Peterauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1063634BOOK9910255069703321Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905–19142533305UNINA