Chapter 6: Social and Welfare reforms
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Chaptrer 6: Social and welfare reforms: pressure and action, 1880-1914
Charles Booth(1840-1916)
WHO:
- wealthy serious minded entrepreneur whos conscience drove him to investigate the nature of poverty in London.
WORK:
- employed a team of up to 35 co-workers over a period of 17 years to undertake a detailed study of the poor in London.
- findings moved a debate in which he was convinced that the poor were in distress through circumstances beyond their control.
BOOTHS ENQUIRIES
- Involvement in intellectual and socially aware radical circles in London led him to reject the hard-line of the COS, ‘That poverty was the fault of the poor’.
- Due to entrepreneurship, he wasn't prepared to go as far as some thinkers and blame the capitalist system for creating poverty.
- After involvement in the 1885 Mansion Hone Enquiry into unemployment, he was…
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