Our Partnership by Webb, Beatrice - 1948

London: Longmans Green & Co., 1948. First edition. Very Good +/very good +. This book is an intimate, authoritative account of one of the greatest and most influential partnerships in English social history. Almost the entire editing of it had been competed by Beatrice Webb when, in 1943, she died. A companion volume to ""My Apprenticeship"", it combines her personal biography with the social history of the first 20 years of her married life, 1892-1912. In it is described her joint work with her husband in their historic enquiries into Trade Unions and local government institutions, and his part in developing London's education, first as a leading Progressive on the LCC and Chairman of the Technical Education Board, later in connection with the University of London and in pioneering the London School of Economics. Other chapters relate to Mrs Webb's own work on the Royal Commissions on the Poor Laws and the publication of the famous Minority Report, foreshadowing the break-up of the poor law, the Beveridge Report and the social security legislation of the then Labour Government. The book also quotes generously many entertaining passages from her diaries, describing her attendances at Trade Union Conferences, her place in London society and her dinner-parties in Grosvenor Road, her impressions of the young Fabians of the '90s and 1900s, her personal contacts with Labour leaders and MPs and her conversations with Cabinet Ministers and with coming young men - now elderly statesmen - of all political parties. Mylar cover;black boards with writing to spine. some marks to front board. dj nicked and torn.not price clipped so showing25 shillings.clean pages and tight binding. First Edition