Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Webb
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". She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth22 January 1858
fear class people
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
people wealth rich
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
men self class
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
love logic cases
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.