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Beatrice Webb (1858–1943)

Autor(a) de My Apprenticeship

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(eng) Beatrice Webb, nee Beatrice Potter, political writer, Fabian Society and Labour Party activist (1858-1943) Do not confuse her with children's book author Beatrix Potter (1866–1943).

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Séries

Obras por Beatrice Webb

My Apprenticeship (1926) 53 exemplares
The history of trade unionism (1919) 28 exemplares
Our Partnership (1948) 22 exemplares
The truth about soviet Russia (1942) 14 exemplares
My Apprenticeship Vols. 2 (1938) 12 exemplares
My Apprenticeship: Volume I (1938) 11 exemplares
Industrial democracy (1897) 8 exemplares
Indian Diary (1987) 8 exemplares
The parish and the county (1963) 7 exemplares
English Poor Law Policy (2012) 5 exemplares
The Modern State (1933) 3 exemplares
The Webbs in New Zealand 1898 (1974) 2 exemplares
A New Reform Bill 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contribuidor, algumas edições550 exemplares
Whither Mankind (1928) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Theories of the Labor Movement (1987) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Webb, Beatrice
Outros nomes
Potter, Martha Beatrice (birth name)
Data de nascimento
1858-01-22
Data de falecimento
1943-04-30
Localização do túmulo
Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
Standish, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Local de falecimento
Liphook, Hampshire, England, UK
Locais de residência
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Liphook, Hampshire, England, UK
Educação
self-educated
Ocupações
economist
sociologist
socialist
social reformer
labor historian
diarist
Relações
Webb, Sidney (husband)
Cripps, Richard Stafford (nephew)
Appiah, Peggy (grand niece)
Appiah, Kwame Anthony (great grand nephew)
Muggeridge, Kitty (niece)
Organizações
Fabian Society
New Statesman (co-founder)
London School of Economics

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Beatrice Potter was born in the village of Standish, Gloucestershire, to the large family of Richard Potter, a wealthy businessman, and his wife Laurencina Heyworth. She educating herself by extensive reading and discussions with her father’s visitors, including the philosopher Herbert Spencer. While staying with distant relatives in a small Lancashire town, she became acquainted with the working class cooperative movement. In 1891, she published her first book, The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain, which later became a classic. In 1892, she married Sidney Webb and the two worked closely together for many years. Both were members of the Labour Party, co-founders of the Fabian Society, and supporters of the Soviet Union. They wrote several books together, including The History of Trade Unionism (1894) and Industrial Democracy (1897). Beatrice's several volumes of autobiographies, beginning with My Apprenticeship (1922), provide important background to the politics of her day. Her diaries, which spanned six decades of her life from 1873 to her death in 1943, include her politically-engaged thoughts and actions during World War I and in the early years of World War II. The diaries were published in four volumes from 1982 to 1985, and in a one-volume abridged edition in 2001.
Nota de desambiguação
Beatrice Webb, nee Beatrice Potter, political writer, Fabian Society and Labour Party activist (1858-1943)

Do not confuse her with children's book author Beatrix Potter (1866–1943).

Membros

Críticas

Among other things, Beatrice Webb’s diaries portray the story of the evolving relationship of the Fabians with the Labor Party. Initially, Beatrice Webb was in favor of “permeation” of the ruling class with Socialist ideas. Initially the Fabians had little faith in the Labor Party but in the 1890s Socialist sects for the first time made genuine contact with trade union organizers who had hitherto been active on the radical wing of the Liberal movement. This was the beginning of the decline of Liberalism. The first reaction of the Webb’s was to turn their attention not to Labor but to the Tory’s. Aristocratic liberalism was the counterparty of Fabian Socialism. The Fabian achievement before 1914 was the gradual and piecemeal assimilation of socialist, or at least any rate post liberal, thought by the leaders of the traditional parties as a means of avoiding wholesale socialization on the threatened Continental model. Before 1914, Labor was not strong enough nor Socialist enough to present itself as an alternative to “permeation” of the ruling classes. It took World War I and the attendant political upheaval to bring about a fusion of Fabianism with the new democracy of the Labor movement. The Webb’s helped Labor adopt a Socialist platform, but were disappointed when Arthur Henderson joined the Lloyd George government in 1916; they did not see taking minor positions in the Lloyd George government as moving the ball forward. A turning point came when Arthur Henderson resigned from the Lloyd George government in 1917 after Lloyd George denied him a visa to visit the the Soviet Union. Henderson’s willingness to associate with the Webb’s enabled Sidney Webb in 1918 to provide the Labor Party with its first detailed program--a Socialist one. Arthur Henderson was more important for the development of the Labor Party than Ramsey McDonald. The Webb’s ability to draw Henderson into the Socialist camp after the quarrel with Lloyd George reflected their ability to keep a foot in each camp. It is worth studying the record for what it discloses about the seemingly haphazard way in which unconscious social processes and highly articulate intellectuals’ speculations can, under favorable circumstances, combined to produce something new and unexpected.[1956]… (mais)
 
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GLArnold | Mar 30, 2019 |
My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an exceptionally able person, with a zest for observation, a knack for pointed comment, and a habit of self-examination - all of which gifts she put to good account in the private diary she kept all her life and in this brilliant volume of autobiography which she based on that diary. It tells the story of a craft and a creed, of a withdrawn but talented girl, growing up in a prosperous household, who turned to social investigation and social reform, moving between the two starkly contrasted worlds of West End smart society and East End squalor. She served a hard apprenticeship, as a woman as well as a professional worker, and in a new introduction to this edition Norman MacKenzie describes the severe personal stresses which lay behind her life of dedication to social improvement, particularly her frustrated passion for Joseph Chamberlain and the troubled courtship which preceded her marriage to Sidney Webb. This volume ends on the eve of that marriage, when she was about to begin her famous and astonishingly productive collaboration with her husband. As historians, publicists and Fabian politicians the Webbs were pioneers of the modern age. The ensuring volume, which chronicles their mature career and was appropriately titled Our Partnership, is also published by the Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science.… (mais)
 
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antimuzak | Nov 27, 2005 |

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Membros
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Popularidade
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Avaliação
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Críticas
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ISBN
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