ABSTRACT
Regarded as one of England's foremost illustrators of children's books and story-books, Crane is something of "a British icon". Crane joined the Socialist League – a splinter group from Hyndman's Social Democratic League which under the leadership of, among others, Morris and Eleanor Marx-Aveling propagated "the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism" – and joined the think-tank the Fabian Society. The social fabric may be reconstructed from that one fragment of truth. The socialists of the time viewed the origin of work, the conditions of labor and labor that served to liberate in differing ways, however. Morris criticizes the tendency of certain socialists to focus more upon instrumental functions, "the mechanism of a system of society", than upon the overall social structure. In line with this, socialists must pay attention to for what purpose devices, technological as well as social, have come into being.
