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Charles Booth Biography 1840 - Born he was the son of a wealthy Liverpool entrepreneur.1884 – Made a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
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Charles Booth Biography 1840 - Born he was the son of a wealthy Liverpool entrepreneur. 1884 - Made a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society 1885 - After involvement with the Mansion House Enquiry into unemployment, decided to investigate poverty in London, with a small team of investigators. 1894 - Published survey 'The Aged Poor in England and Wales'. 1903 - 17 volumes of the inquiry into 'The Life and Labour of the People of London' completed. What did he set out to do?> He rejected the hard line of the Charity Organisation Society (COS) that poverty was the fault of the poor. He did not blame the capitalist system for creating poverty either.> Henry Hyndman a Marxist thinker provided the trigger that set Booth off on his task. Booth could not accept the conclusion of Hyndman's street by street survey in the East end of London that said 25% of the population lived in abject...
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