Samuel George Hobson, often known as S. G. Hobson (4 February 1870 - 4 January 1940), was a major theorist of guild socialism. Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Guild socialism is a political movement advocating workers' control of industry through the medium of trade-related Guilds.
Born in Bessbrook, County Armagh, Hobson was given a Quaker education in Saffron Walden and then Sidcot, Somerset. Bessbrook ( Beal in Irish) is a Village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, with approximately 3000 inhabitants County Armagh ( Contae Ard Mhacha in Irish - from the height of Macha) is a county in Ulster in the north east of Ireland Saffron Walden is a medium-sized market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county Moving to Cardiff, he became an active socialist, joining first the Fabian Society and then becoming a founder member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP). Cardiff ( 'kɑːdɪf) is the Capital and the largest city and county in Wales. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution The Fabian Society is a British Intellectual Socialist movement whose purpose is to advance the principles of Social democracy via Gradualist See Independent Labor Party for the Political party in Burundi, Independent Labour Group for the Irish party and Labour candidates He began writing for the ILP newspaper, Labour Leader, and in 1900 was elected to the Fabian Society's executive. For the play see The Labour Leader. For the Irish newspaper see The Leader (newspaper.
Hobson stood for the ILP in the 1895 UK general election at Bristol East, becoming a member of the Bristol Socialist Society for some years. The UK general election of 1895 was held from 13 July - 7 August 1895 Bristol East is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Bristol Socialist Society was a political organisation in South West England. In the 1906, he stood as an "independent Labour" candidate in Rochdale. The United Kingdom general election of 1906 was held from 12 January to 8 February 1906 Rochdale is a Borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. By this point, he was keen to go beyond the Labour Party's Parliamentary activity and create an actual socialist society. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the
From 1906, Hobson developed a theory of a socialism based on guilds, a form of workers' self-management inspired by Mediaeval forms of organisation. A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers He left the Fabians in 1910 and soon began writing for Alfred Richard Orage's magazine, The New Age. Alfred Richard Orage (born January 22 1873 Dacre Yorkshire England - died November 6 1934 London was a British Intellectual, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age was a British Literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship of A He coined the term "guild socialism", and in 1914, his writing for the publication was compiled as National Guilds: an Inquiry into the Wage System and a Way Out. He helped found the National Guilds League, but following disagreements with G. D. H. Cole over strategy, and The New Age's move to supporting social credit, he ceased theoretical work. Guild socialism is a political movement advocating workers' control of industry through the medium of trade-related Guilds. George Douglas Howard Cole ( 25 September 1889 &ndash 14 January 1959) was an English Political theorist, Economist Social Credit is a socio-economic Philosophy wherein Consumers fully provided with adequate Purchasing power, establish the policy of production
Throughout this period, Hobson had been involved in various profitable activities, managing a banana plantation and editing an investment journal. Fundamentally a plantation is usually a large Farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country on which Cotton, Tobacco Eventually, he attempted to organise a builders' guild, but this was not a success.
Hobson wrote a memoir entitled "Pilgrim to the Left - Memoirs of a Modern Revolutionist" which was published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1938.
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