Fabian Tracts: 1902-18

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Tract	Title	Author	Year
109	Cottage plans and common sense\|	Raymond Unwin	1902
110	Problems of Indian poverty\|	S S Thorburn	1902
111	Reform of reformatories and industrial schools\|	H T Holmes	1902
112	Life in the laundry\|	Dr G F McCleary*	1902
113	Communism\|: an address to the Hammersmith Socialist Society, 1893	William Morris, with editor's note by George Bernard Shaw	1903
114	The Education Act, 1902\|: how to make the best of it	Sidney Webb*	1903
115	State-aid to agriculture\|: an example	T S Dymond	1903
116	Fabianism and the fiscal question\|: an alternative policy	George Bernard Shaw*	1904
117	The London Education Act 1903\|: how to make the best of it	Sidney Webb*	1904
118	The secret of rural depopulation\|	D C Pedder	1904
119	Public control of electric power and transit\|	Report of the Committee of the Society appointed to consider the Control of Electrical Power and Transit, presented by S G Hobson	1905
120	"After bread, education": \|a plan for the state feeding of school children	Report of the Committee of the Society appointed to consider the provision of meals for school children, presented by Hubert Bland	1905
121	Public service versus private expenditure\|: address ("Public wealth and corporate expenditure") to the Ancient Order of Foresters, Birmingham, 9 October 1904	Sir Oliver Lodge	1905
122	Municipal milk and public health\|	F Lawson Dodd	1905
123	The revival of agriculture\|: a national policy for Great Britain	Report of the Agricultural Committee, presented by H W Macrosty	1905
124	State control of trusts\|	H W Macrosty	1905
125	Municipalization by provinces\|	Report of the Committee of the Society appointed to consider the reform of local government, presented by William Sanders	1905
126	Abolition of the Poor Law Guardians\|	Report of the Committee of the Society appointed to consider the reform of the poor law, presented by Edward R Pease	1906
127	Socialism and labor policy\|	Hubert Bland (editor)*	1906
128	The case for a legal minimum wage\| (reprint, with postscript dated 1911)	W Stephen Sanders*	1908
129	More books to read on social and economic subjects\|	Edward R Pease*	1906
130	Home work and sweating\|: the causes and the remedies	B L Hutchins	1907
131	The decline in the birth-rate\|	Sidney Webb	1907
132	A guide to books for socialists\|		1907
133	Socialism and Christianity\|	Percy Dearmer	1907
134	Small holdings, allotments and common pastures\|: and how to get them by the Act of 1907		1907
135	Paupers and old age pensions\|	Sidney Webb	1907
136	The village and the landlord\|	Edward Carpenter	1907
137	Parish Councils and village life\| (revision of Tract 105: "Five years' fruits of the Parish Councils Act")		1908
138	Municipal trading\|	Aylmer Maude*	1908
139	Socialism and the churches\|. An address to the London Baptist Association, 30 June 1908	Rev John Clifford	1908
140	Child labor under capitalism\|	Mrs Hylton Dale	1908
141	Sosialaeth a'r eglwysi\| (Welsh translation of Tract 139)	Rev John Clifford	1909
142	Rent and value\|	Adapted by Mrs Bernard Shaw*	1909
143	Sosialaeth yng ngoleuni'r beibl\|	J R Jones	1909
144	Machinery: its masters and its servants\|	H H Schloesser and Clement Game	1909
145	The case for school nurseries\|	Mrs [Emily Caroline] Townshend	1909
146	Socialism and superior brains\|: a reply to Mr. Mallock (1st published 1909, 6th reprint 1926)	George Bernard Shaw	1926
147	Capital and compensation\|	Edward R Pease	1909
148	What a Health Committee can do\|	Miss B L Hutchins*	1910
149	The endowment of motherhood\|	Henry D Harben	1910
150	State purchase of railways\|: a practicable scheme	Emil Davies	1910
151	The point of honour\|: a correspondence on aristocracy and socialism	Ruth Cavendish Bentinck	1910
152	Our taxes as they are and as they ought to be\|	Robert Jones	1911
153	The twentieth century Reform Bill\|	Henry H Schloesser	1911
154	The case for school clinics\|	L Haden Guest	1911
155	The case against the referendum\|	Clifford D Sharp	1911
156	What an Education Committee can do\| (elementary schools)	The Education Group*	1911
157	The working life of women\| (Fabian Women's Group Series, no.1)	B L Hutchins	1911
158	The case against the Charity Organization Society\|	Mrs [Emily Caroline] Townshend	1911
159	The necessary basis of society\|	Sidney Webb	1911
160	A national medical service\|	F Lawson Dodd	1911
161	Afforestation and unemployment\|	Arthur P Grenfell	1912
162	Family life on a pound a week\| (Fabian Women's Group Series, no.2, published 1912; reprint 1914)	Mrs Pember Reeves	1914
163	Women and prisons\| (Fabian Women's Group Series, no.3)	Helen Blagg and Charlotte Wilson	1912
164	Gold and state banking\|: a study in the economics of monopoly	Edward R Pease	1912
165	Francis Place\|: the tailor of Charing Cross (Biographical Series, no.1)	St. John G Ervine	1912
166	Robert Owen\|: social reformer (Biographical Series, no.2)	B L Hutchins	1912
167	William Morris and the communist ideal\| (Biographical Series, no.3)	Mrs [Emily Caroline] Townshend	1912
168	John Stuart Mill\| (Biographical Series, no.4)	Julius West	1913
169	The socialist movement in Germany\|	W Stephen Sanders	1913
170	Profit-sharing and co-partnership\|: a fraud and a failure? (first published 1913, reprinted 1926)	Edward R Pease	1926
171	The Nationalization of Mines and Minerals Bill\|	Henry H Schloesser	1913
172	What about the rates?\| Or municipal finance and municipal autonomy	Sidney Webb	1913
173	Public versus private electricity supply\|. Paper prepared for the Fabian Research Department	C Ashmore Baker	1913
174	Charles Kingsley and Christian Socialism\| (Biographical Series, no.5)	Colwyn E Vulliamy	1914
175	The economic foundations of the women's movement\| (Fabian Women's Group Series, no.3)	Mabel Atkinson	1914
176	The war and the workers\|: handbook of some immediate measures to prevent unemployment and relieve distress	Sidney Webb	1914
177	Socialism and the arts of use\|	A Clutton Brock	1915
178	The war, women and unemployment\|	The Women's Group Executive	1915
179	John Ruskin and social ethics\| (Biographical Series, no.6)	Edith J Morley	[1915?]
180	The philosophy of socialism\|	A Clutton Brock	1916
181	When peace comes\|: the way of industrial reconstruction	Sidney Webb	1916
182	Robert Owen – idealist\| (Biographical Series, no.7)	C E M Joad	1917
183	The reform of the House of Lords\|	Sidney Webb	1917
184	The Russian revolution and British democracy\|	Julius West	1917
185	The abolition of the poor law\|	Beatrice Webb	1918
186	Central Africa and the League of Nations\|	R C Hawkin	1918
187	The teacher in politics\|	Sidney Webb	1918

* The authors marked by an asterisk are taken from the list of tracts in "The history of the Fabian Society" by Edward Pease (2nd edition, 1925). Pease notes that such tracts were adopted and probably amended by the Society, and were issued without the author's name.