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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 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 ofBeatrice 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 colleague

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Author

Peter Gahan (auth.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319484426

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Literary Criticism