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The intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism / by Bernard Shaw.
LIBRA HX246 .S53
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socialism.
- Capitalism.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1928.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xlvi, 495 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Brentano's Publishers, 1928.
- Contents:
- A closed question opens
- Dividing-up
- How much for each?
- No wealth without work
- Communism
- Limits to communism
- Seven ways proposed
- To each what she produces
- To each what she deserves
- To each what she can grab
- Oligarchy
- Distribution by class
- Laisser-faire
- How much is enough?
- What we should buy first
- Eugenics
- The courts of law
- The idle rich
- Church, school, and press
- Why we put up with it
- Positive reasons for equality
- Merit and money
- Incentive
- The tyranny of nature
- The population question
- The diagnostic of socialism
- Person righteousness
- Capitialism
- Your shopping
- Your taxes
- Your rates
- Your rent
- What capital is
- Investment and enterprise
- Limitations of capitalism
- The industrial revolution
- Sending capital out of the country
- Doles, depopulation, and parasitic paradises
- Foreign trade and the flag
- Empires in collision
- The sorcerer's apprentice
- How wealth accumulates and men decay
- Disablement above and below
- The middle station in life
- Decline of the employer
- The proletariat
- The labor market and the factory acts
- Women in the labor market
- Trade union capitalism
- Divide and govern
- Domestic capital
- The money market
- Speculation
- Banking
- Money
- Nationalization of banking
- Compensation for nationalization
- Preliminaries to nationalization
- Confiscation without compensation
- Revolt of the parasitic proletariat
- Safety valves
- Why confiscation has suceeded hitherto
- How the war was paid for
- National debt redemption levies
- The constructive problem solved
- Sham socialism
- Capitalism in perpetual motion
- The runaway car of capitalism
- The natural limit to liberty
- Rent of ability
- Party politics
- The party system
- Divisions within the labor party
- Religious dissensions
- Revolutions
- Change must be parliamentary
- Subsidized private enterprise
- How long will it take?
- Socialism and liberty
- Socialism and marriage
- Socialism and children
- Socialism and the churches
- Current confusions
- Peroration
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- "Copyright, 1928, by Brentano's Inc."
- "First printing, June, 1928."
- Includes "A foreword for American readers" (p. vii-xi) signed G.B.S., dated 17 April 1928.
- Includes "Appendix Instead of a bibliography" (p. 465-470) and index.
- Green cloth with woven-chain design as in English edition, but poorly blocked and by Douglas Cockerell in gilt and green on upper cover and spine, lettered in gilt on spine with gilt wide rule at top and bottom.--Cf. Laurence.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: "Green and gold stamping on straw colored cloth. A symmetrical design that is based on Celtic knotwork, lacing a gold ring with nine gold dots in the center" -- Minsky.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Laurence, D. H. Bernard Shaw: a bibliography, A187
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 1, pg. 56
- OCLC:
- 266156
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