Women's Fabian TractsSally Alexander First published in 1988. This volume situates the work of the Fabian Women's Group in the context of both Fabian socialism and the thought and practise of the early twentieth-century Women's Movement. These tracts have been instrumental in developing present day discourse on the sexual, economic and social aspects of women's lives. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Women and the Factory Acts | 17 |
the causes and the remedies 333333 | 53 |
Rent and value | 73 |
A summary of six papers and discussions upon | 105 |
a correspondence on aristocracy | 129 |
Three years work 19081911 | 145 |
The working life of women | 164 |
The economic foundations of the womens movement | 256 |
The war women and unemployment | 283 |
The abolition of the Poor Law | 313 |
Some problems of education | 324 |
Cooperative education | 360 |
what has been and what | 375 |
A new reform bill | 388 |
a new plan | 411 |
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