Breakages, Limited

Breakages, Limited is a fictional corporation that figures in George Bernard Shaw's 1928 play The Apple Cart.[1] It has acquired a monopoly of all repair trades.[2] "Breakages" is the focus of a critique of capitalism,[3] shown as exerting undue political influence while hampering beneficial technological progress to protect its own interests.[4]

  1. ^ Bernard Shaw (1930). The apple cart: a political extravaganza. Constable and Company Ltd.
  2. ^ Ruth Adam (1966). What Shaw Really Said. Macdonald & Company. p. 54.
  3. ^ Milton T. Wolf (1 January 1997). Shaw and Science Fiction. Penn State Press. p. 32. ISBN 0-271-01681-7.
  4. ^ Heidi J. Holder; MaryAnn K. Crawford (2006). New Readings: Shaw at the Sesquicentennial. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 126–130. ISBN 978-0-271-02968-9.