Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 19051914
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This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webbs 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, 1928s The Intelligent Womans Guide to Socialism and Capitalism had its roots in this period before the Great War. As both the eras 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 Webbs 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.