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

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

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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 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 So...