Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905-1914

by Peter Gahan

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:3319839446

ISBN13:9783319839448

Release Date:June 2018

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:219 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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