Beatrice Webb, a member of this organization, coined the term “collective bargaining” and helped found the London School of Economics with her husband Sidney. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this socialist democratic organization that included writers such as H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. This gradualist reform organization is named after a Punic War general known as “the delayer.”
ANSWER: Fabian Society [accept Fabians; or Fabianism]
[10h] This member of the Fabian Society publicized the plight of matchgirls during an 1889 strike at the Bryant & May factory. This woman later abandoned Fabianism after joining the Theosophical Society with Helena Blavatsky.
ANSWER: Annie Besant [or Annie Wood]
[10e] The Fabian Society helped found this party through its namesake 1900 Representation Committee. This party won its first prime ministry after Ramsay MacDonald defeated Conservative Stanley Baldwin in the 1923 election.
ANSWER: Labour Party of the United Kingdom [accept Labour Representation Committee]
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