TY - BOOK ID - 15327733 TI - Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on poverty and equality in the modern world, 1905–1914 PY - 2017 SN - 3319484427 3319484419 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Theater KW - Social history. KW - Literature, Modern KW - British literature. KW - Cultural and Media Studies. KW - Theatre History. KW - Social History. KW - British Culture. KW - British and Irish Literature. KW - Twentieth-Century Literature. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Europe. KW - History. KW - 20th century. KW - Shaw, Bernard, KW - Webb, Beatrice, KW - Literature KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - Cultural studies KW - Webb, Beatrice Potter, KW - Passfield, Beatrice Potter Webb, KW - Uebb, Beatrisa, KW - Vebb, Beatrisa, KW - Webb, Sidney, KW - Potter, Beatrice, KW - Potter, Martha Beatrice, KW - Vebb, Bitris, KW - Webbu, Biatorisu, KW - Webb, Sydney, KW - וועבב, ביטריס, KW - Birnārd Shū, KW - Shū, Birnārd, KW - Hsiao, Po-na, KW - Shou, Dzhordzh Bernard, KW - Corno di Bassetto, KW - Bassetto, Corno di, KW - Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, KW - Shou, Bernard, KW - Shaw, George Bernard, KW - Shaw, G. B. KW - Shō, Bānādo, KW - Shiyou, Baanādo, KW - Shaw, G. Bernard KW - Pern̲āṭṣā, KW - Pern̲ārṭuṣā, KW - Cā, Pern̲āṭ, KW - Ṣā, Pern̲ārṭ, KW - Ṣā, Jārj Pern̲ārṭu, KW - Шоу, Джордж Бернард, KW - שאו, בערנארד KW - שאו, בערנארד, KW - שאו, ברנארד, KW - שאו, ברנארד KW - שאו, ברנרד KW - שאו, ג׳ורג׳ ברנרד KW - شو، برنارد، KW - Theater-History. KW - Ethnology-Europe. KW - Literature, Modern-20th century. KW - History KW - Sociology KW - Theater—History. KW - Ethnology—Europe. KW - Literature, Modern—20th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15327733 AB - 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. ER -