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CHARLES BOOTH (184o– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 239 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES BOOTH (184o– )  ,
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English sociologist, was born at Liverpool on the 30th of March 1840 . In 1862 he became a partner in
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Alfred Booth &
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Company, a Liverpool
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firm engaged in the Brazil trade, and subsequently chairman of the Booth Steamship Company . He devoted much time, and no inconsiderable sums of
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money, to inquiries into the statistical aspects of social questions . The results of these are chiefly embodied in a
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work entitled
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Life and Labour of the
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People in
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London (1891–1903), of which the earlier portion appeared under the title of Life and Labour in 1889 . The
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book is designed to show " the numerical relation which poverty, misery and depravity bear to
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regular earnings and
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comparative comfort, and to describe the general conditions under which each class lives." It contains a most striking series of maps, in which the varying degrees of poverty are represented street by street, by shades of colour . The data for the work were derived in
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part from the detailed records kept by school-board " visitors," partly from systematic inquiries directed by Mr Booth himself, supplemented by information derived from relieving
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officers and the Charity Organization Society . Mr Booth also paid much attention to a kindred subject—the lot of the aged poor . In 1894 he published a
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volume of
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statistics on the subject, and, in 1891 and 1899,
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works on Old-age
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pensions, his scheme for the latter depending on a general provision of pensions of five shillings a week to all aged persons, irrespective of the cost to the state . He married, in 1871, the daughter of Charles Zachary Macaulay . In 1904 he was made a privy councillor .

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