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BOOTH, CHARLES (184o )

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 239 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BOOTH, CHARLES (184o ) , English sociologist, was born at Liverpool on the 30th of
March
  1840. In 1862 he became a partner in Alfred
Booth
  & Company, a Liverpool firm engaged in the Brazil trade, and subsequently chairman of the
Booth
  Steamship Company. He devoted much time, and no inconsiderable sums of money, to inquiries into the statistical aspects of social questions. The results of these are chiefly embodied in a
work
  entitled Life and Labour of the People in London (18911903), of which the earlier portion appeared under the title of Life and Labour in 1889. The book is designed to show " the numerical relation which poverty, misery and depravity
bear
  to regular earnings and 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 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 officers and the Charity Organization Society. Mr Booth also paid much attention to a kindred subjectthe lot of the aged poor. In 1894 he published a volume of
statistics
  on the subject, and, in 1891
and 1899, works on Old-age 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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