Key to Poverty Maps. Western Survey Area. London. Charles Booth / LSE 1930
Key to the Poverty Maps. Western Survey Area Sheet. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Surveyed by London School of Economics, continuing and extending the earlier survey by Charles Booth. The Consultative committee included Sir William Beveridge, George M. Booth, , Sir George Duckworth, , John Hilton, , Lord Passfield, , and Allyn Young. Charles Booth (1840–1916) was an English philanthropist and social researcher. He is best known for his innovative survey documenting London working class life at the end of the 19th century (most famously through his colour-coded poverty maps of the city of which this is one suh map). This work influenced government intervention against poverty in the early 20th century and led to the founding of Old Age pensions. He popularised the concept of the "Poverty Line". Provenance: "New Survey of London Life & Labour", by the London School of Economics; edited by Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith. Introductory chapter by Sir H. Llewellyn Smith. Published by & Son. Type: Vintage coloured folding map. These maps were surveyed and produced by a team at the London School of Economics, continuing, updating and extending the earlier poverty maps by Charles Booth; the Charles Booth archive is held at the LSE library to this day. Booth was a philanthropist and social reformer. He was critical of the existing statistical data on poverty in late-Victorian London. His research showed that 35% of the population were living in abject poverty - far higher than widely believed. He popularised the idea of the 'poverty line', and used his work to argue for the introduction of Old Age Pensions which he described as "limited socialism". He was not a socialist, but had sympathy with the working classes and argued that such reforms would help prevent socialist revolution from occurring in Britain. Map colour key: BLACK: "Lowest class of degraded or semi criminal population"; BLUE: "Those who are living below Charles Boot
Size: 2986px × 2398px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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