Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Beatrice Webb
Born: January 22, 1858
Died: April 30, 1943 (aged 85)
Bio: Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. It was Webb who coined the term "collective bargaining".
Known for:
- The History of Trade Unionism (1902)
- My Apprenticeship (1926)
- Industrial Democracy (1897)
- The Diaries of Beatrice Webb
- Our Partnership
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