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

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