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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: historical and theoretical themes -- 2 Sidney and Beatrice Webb -- 3 Max Weber and German Social Democracy -- 4 Reformism and the 'bourgeoisification' of the labour movement -- 5 Education and self-education: staffing the early ILP -- 6 Socialism and the educated working class -- 7 Notes on three socialisms - collectivism, statism and associationism - mainly in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain.