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

Intro -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: 1884-1904: Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 2: 1905: Poverty, Salvation and the Poor Law Commission. Major Barbara -- Notes -- Chapter 3: 1905-9: Noises Off-H. G. Wells Among the Fabians. Votes for Women! -- Votes for Women! -- Notes -- Chapter 4: 1909: The Minority Report. Getting Married and Misalliance -- Shaw's Getting Married and Misalliance -- Notes -- Chapter 5: 1910: Campaign for the Prevention of Destitution. Eugenics and 'Equality' -- Shaw and Eugenics -- Shaw's Fabian Lecture on 'Equality', Memorial Hall, 9 December 1910 -- Notes -- Chapter 6: 1911: Travels. Fanny's First Play -- Xxxxxxx Xxxx's Fanny's First Play -- Chapter 7: 1912: War on Poverty -- Notes -- Chapter 8: 1913: The New Statesman and the Fabian Research Department. Religion and 'The Case for Equality' -- Shaw's Lecture 'The Case for Equality', National Liberal Club, 1 May 1913 -- Shaw on Religion and Equality -- Notes -- Chapter 9: 1914: 'On Redistribution' and War. Pygmalion -- Shaw's Pygmalion -- Outbreak of War -- Shaw's 1914 Notes for Lectures on Redistribution -- Redistribution of Income -- Passing of the Idols -- Discourse of a Traffic Manager and a Railway Porter -- Incentive -- The Incentive to Think -- The Incentive to Bodily Labour -- The Appetite or Distinction as an Incentive to Production -- The Incentive to Irksome Work -- Money as an Incentive -- How the Change to Equality of Income Is Actually Happening -- The Law of Minimum -- The Incentive to Use Money as Capital -- Why State Morality and State Economics Are Unique -- Shaw's Fabian Lectures on Redistribution of Income, Kingsway Hall, 28 October-2 December 1914 -- Shaw's New York American Articles on Redistribution -- 'Mr. Bernard Shaw's Surprising Views About the War', 15 November 191415.

'Why We Idolize Millionaires', 22 November 1914 -- 'The Idolatry of Money and How to End It', 29 November 1914 -- 'Why the Idle Rich Should Be Destroyed as the Bees Destroy Their Drones', 6 December 1914 -- 'Bernard Shaw on Capital and Labour', 20 December 1914 -- 'Who Will Do the Drudgery in a Socialistic Community', 10 January 1915 -- Notes -- Chapter 10: 1915-50: Epilogue-Heartbreak and Progress -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Works Cited -- (See also under Beatrice Webb) -- Index.

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