Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: sidney webb

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  • WHAT IS AHEAD OF US?
    G.D.H. COLE / ARTHUR SALTER / WICKHAM STEED / SIDNEY WEBB / P. M. S. BLACKETT / LANCELOT HOGBEN
    First published in 1937, What is Ahead of Us? is a collection of essays, which were originally presented as lectures before the Fabian Society. Conceived in an era of growing fascism and economic despair, the essays urge the reader to imagine more equitable alternatives to capitalism. The authors offer socialism as a solution but what is more interesting is their criticism of c...

    $840.00

  • STATUTORY AUTHORITIES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
    SIDNEY WEBB / BEATRICE WEBB
    Originally published in 1963, this volume is devoted to an analysis of the organisation of the Commissioners of Sewers, the Incorporated Guardians of the Poor, the Turnpike Trusts and the Improvement Commissioners, and depicts the important development of these bodies during the eighteenth century. By examining the constitutional features of these statutory authorities Mr. & Mr...

    $980.00

  • ENGLISH PRISONS UNDER LOCAL GOVERNMENT
    SIDNEY WEBB / BEATRICE WEBB
    First published in 1922, in this volume Sydney and Beatrice Webb give a detailed account of the evolution of the English Prison System from the common gaol and the house of correction of the sixteenth century down to the statutory changes of the twentieth century, and survey the successive efforts at reform of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry, Jeremy Bentham and James Neild, Sir T...

    $1,060.00

  • ENGLISH PRISONS UNDER LOCAL GOVERNMENT
    SIDNEY WEBB / BEATRICE WEBB
    Originally published in 1968, English Prisons Under Local Government gives a detailed account of the evolution of the English Prison System from the common gaol and the house of correction of the sixteenth century down to the statutory changes of the twentieth century, and survey the successive efforts at reform of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry, Jeremy Bentham and James Neild, ...

    $980.00

  • ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICY
    SIDNEY WEBB / BEATRICE WEBB
    First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards pauperism from the ‘Revolution of 1834’ to the Majority and Minority Reports of 1909. In their preface to this volume the Webbs wrote: "What obscured the history was the manner in which masses of heterogeneous facts were heaped together. To read,...

    $920.00