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==Writings== Webb co-authored with his wife ''[[The History of Trade Unionism]]'' (1894). For the Fabian Society he wrote on poverty in London,<ref>{{Citation |last=Webb |first=Sidney |title=Facts for Londoners: An exhaustive collection of statistical and other facts relating to the metropolis: with suggestions for reform on socialist principles |journal=Fabian Tract |volume=8 |year=1889 |url=https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/facts-for-londoners-an-exhaustive-collection-of-statistical-and-other-facts-with-suggestions-for-reform-on-socialist-principles-1889/90590}}</ref> the [[eight-hour day]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Webb |first=Sidney |title=An Eight Hours Bill in the form of an amendment of the Factory Acts, with further provisions for the improvement of the conditions of labour |date=May 1890 |journal=Fabian Tract |volume=9 |url=https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/an-eight-hours-bill-in-the-form-of-an-amendment-of-the-factory-acts-with-further-provisions-for-the-improvement-of-the-conditions-of-labour-1890/90736}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Webb |first=Sidney |title=The case for an Eight Hours Bill |journal=Fabian Tract |volume=23 |year=1891 |url=https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/the-case-for-an-eight-hours-bill-1891/91212}}</ref> land [[nationalisation]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Webb |first=Sidney |title=Practicable land nationalization |journal=Fabian Tract |volume=12 |year=1890 |url=https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/practicable-land-nationalization-1890/90860}}</ref> the nature of socialism,<ref>{{Citation |last=Webb |first=Sidney |title=Socialism: true and false. A lecture delivered to the Fabian Society |date=21 January 1894 |journal=Fabian Tract |volume=51 |url=https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/socialism-true-and-false-1894/92531}}</ref> education,<ref>{{Citation |last=Webb |first=Sidney |title=The education muddle and the way out: a constructive criticism of English educational machinery |journal=Fabian Tract |volume=106 |year=1901 |url=https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/the-education-muddle-and-the-way-out-a-constructive-criticism-of-english-educational-machinery-1901/94492}}</ref> [[eugenics]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Webb |first=Sidney |title=The decline in the birth-rate |journal=Fabian Tract |volume=131 |year=1907 |url=https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/the-decline-in-the-birth-rate-1907/95436}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-02-17 |title=Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left's closet {{!}} Jonathan Freedland |url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/17/eugenics-skeleton-rattles-loudest-closet-left |access-date=2020-06-15 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> and [[reform of the House of Lords]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Webb |first=Sidney |title=The reform of the House of Lords |journal=Fabian Tract |volume=183 |year=1917 |url=https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/the-reform-of-the-house-of-lords-1917/97806}}</ref> He also drafted [[Clause IV]], which committed the Labour Party to public ownership of industry.{{cn|date=November 2021}}
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