Beatrice Webb
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Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (January 22, 1858 - April 30, 1943) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield.
Beatrice Webb was born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, the granddaughter of a Radical MP, Richard Potter. In 1882, she had a relationship with Radical politician Joseph Chamberlain, by then a Cabinet minister. This was a failure, and in 1890 she was introduced to Sidney Webb, whose help she sought in research she was carrying out. They married in 1892, and remained together for the rest of her life. She was an active partner in all his political and professional activities, including the organisation of the Fabian Society and the establishment of the London School of Economics. She co-authored books such as the History of Trade Unionism (1894), and was co-founder of the New Statesman magazine (1913).
Webb's nephew, Sir Stafford Cripps, became a well-known British Labour politician in the 1930s and 1940s.
Bibliography
Works by Beatrice Potter Webb
- Cooperative Movement in Great Britain (1891)
- Wages of Men and Women: Should they be equal? (1919)
- My Apprenticeship (1926)
- Our Partnership (1948)
Works by Beatrice and Sidney Webb
- History of Trade Unionism (1894)
- Industrial Democracy (1897)
- English Local Government Vol. I-X (1906 through 1929)
- The Manor and the Borough (1908)
- The Break-Up of the Poor Law (1909)
- English Poor-Law Policy (1910)
- The Cooperative Movement (1914)
- Works Manager Today (1917)
- The Consumer's Cooperative Movement (1921)
- Decay of Capitalist Civilization (1923)
- Methods of Social Study (1932)
- Soviet Communism: A new civilization? (1935)
- The Truth About Soviet Russia (1942)
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