New Liberalism 1902-1918: Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree
- Created by: Beth Evans
- Created on: 24-02-13 16:47
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Charles Booth (1840-1916)
- Born into wealthy Liverpool ship owning family
- Mid 1870s he moved to London
- Refused to accept statistic: '25% of the working class live in poverty'
- Booth set up his own research with paid investigators
- Over 17 years the living conditions, income and spending of 4,000 people was reported
- 1889-1903: 17 volumes were published
- Found that 31% of Londoners were living below the poverty line
- Booth categorized people:
- Class A: lowest class who were criminals (1.25% of poor)
- Class B: Casual earnings who were widowers/ part time labourers (11.25% of poor)
- Class…
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