Fabian Tracts: 1919-39

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Tract Title Author Year
188 National finance and a levy on capital|: what the Labour Party intends Sidney Webb 1919
189 Urban District Councils|: their constitution, powers and duties C M Lloyd 1920
190 Metropolitan Borough Councils|: their constitution, powers and duties C R Attlee 1920
191 Borough Councils|: their constitution, powers and duties C R Attlee 1920
192 Guild socialism| G D H Cole 1920
193 Housing| C M Lloyd 1920
194 Taxes, rates and local income tax| Robert Jones 1920
195 The scandal of the poor law| C M Lloyd 1920
196 The root of labour unrest|: an address to employers and managers Sidney Webb 1920
197 The International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations| W Stephen Sanders 1921
198 Some problems of education| Barbara Drake 1922
199 William Lovett|, 1800-1877 (Biographical Series, no.8) Mrs L Barbara Hammond 1922
200 The state in the new social order|. With a note by Edward R Pease dealing with the history of the Fabian Tracts, on the occasion of No.200 of the series Harold J Laski (and note by Edward R Pease) 1922
201 International co-operative trade| Leonard Woolf 1922
202 The constitutional problems of a co-operative society| Sidney Webb 1923
203 The need for federal re-organisation in the co-operative movement| Sidney Webb 1923
204 The position of employees in the co-operative movement| Lilian Harris 1923
205 Co-operative education| Lilian A Dawson 1923
206 The co-operator in politics| Alfred Barnes 1923
207 The Labour Party on the threshold|: the Chairman's address to the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 26 June 1923 Sidney Webb 1923
208 Environment and health|: Presidential address to the 91st Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, July 1923 Charles P Childe 1924
209 Compulsory voting|: what it is and how it works William A Robson 1924
210 The position of parties and the right of dissolution| Harold J Laski 1924
211 The case against proportional representation| Herman Finer 1924
212 Germany and the League of Nations| Hermann Kantorowicz 1924
213 The problem of a second chamber| Harold J Laski 1925
214 The District Auditor|: an old menace in a new guise William A Robson 1925
215 William Cobbett| (Biographical Series, no.9) G D H Cole 1925
216 Socialism and freedom| Harold J Laski 1925
217 Thomas Paine| (Biographical Series, no.10) Kingsley Martin 1925
218 The County Council|: what it is and what it does H Samuels 1925
[5] Facts for socialists| showing the distribution of the national income and its results (13th edition)   1926
219 Socialism and the standardised life| William A Robson 1926
220 Seditious offences| E J C Neep, with an introductory note by Harold J Laski 1926
221 Jeremy Bentham| (Biographical Series, no.11) Victor Cohen 1927
222 The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill|: an analysis and commentary William A Robson 1927
223 The British cabinet|: a study of is personnel 1801-1924 Harold J Laski 1928
224 Public ownership|: points from prospectuses A Emil Davies 1928
225 Education Committees|: their powers and duties H Samuels 1928
226 The League of Nations| George Bernard Shaw 1929
227 Labour's foreign policy|: what has been and what might be H M Swanwick 1929
228 Agriculture and the Labour Party| G T Garratt 1929
229 National finance| F W Pethick-Lawrence 1929
230 Imperial trusteeship| Lord Olivier 1929
231 The Local Government Act, 1929|: how to make the best of it Sidney Webb 1929
232 The personnel of the British Foreign Office and the diplomatic service, 1851-1929| Robert T Nightingale 1930
233 "Socialism: principles and outlook" and "Fabianism"| George Bernard Shaw 1930
234 A social philosophy for Fabians| Robert Fraser (with an introductory note by Harold J Laski) 1930
235 The limitations of the expert| Harold J Laski 1931
236 A new Reform Bill| Beatrice Webb 1931
237 What happened in 1931|:a record Sidney Webb 1932
238 Some essentials of socialist propaganda|: a tract for the times G D H Cole 1932
239 Currency, credit and the unemployment crisis| Gilbert Slater 1932
240 Starvation in the midst of plenty|: a new plan for the state feeding of school children Barbara Drake 1933
241 A national physiological minimum| Somerville Hastings 1934
242 Housing principles| Ivor Thomas 1935
243 The London County Council 1889-1937|: a historical sketch A Emil Davies 1937
244 Freedom in our time| Olive and Ivan Cruchley 1937
245 Indian federation| Bool Chand 1938
246 Our ageing population| A Emil Davies 1938
247 The war on the home front| G D H Cole [1939]
248 Democracy for India| H N Brailsford 1939


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Why are the many poor (cover of tract 1)

 

Family life on a pound a week (cover of tract 162)

 

Equality, liberty, fraternity (cover of tract 152)

 

Thomas Paine (cover of tract 217)

 

The Fabian turtle (from tract 251)

 

More socialisation or less (cover of tract 268)

 

Beatrice and Sidney Webb (cover of tract 297)

 

Dwell together in unity (cover of tract 313)

 

The new right (cover of tract 387)

 

The politics of the environment (cover of tract 412)

 

The computer and society, Fabian Tract 457

 

Information age government (cover of Fabian Tract 582)