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3.6 Booth and Rowntree, STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF BOOTH'S FINDINGS.,…
3.6 Booth and Rowntree
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CHARLES BOOTH (LONDON)
Booth was a successful entrepreneur who carried out a 17 year long study about poverty in London 35 co-workers.
Completed by 1903.
-He did not believe that poverty was a fault of the poor (COS) believe nor was it due to the capitalist system. He wanted to explore the STRUCTURAL reasons behind poverty and not just the MORAL ones.
Booth divided the population into 6 classes ranging from class A who were the bottom 1% of social hierachy.
All the way to class H who were the lower and upper middle class and made 17.8% of the population
-First 1899, 1941 and 1951.
Rowntree conducted 3 investigations on poverty in York his aim was to identify the number living in poverty and the nature of that poverty.
He wanted to expand on booths work on the poverty line.
He used a full-time investigator who made house to house visits.
=Altogether 11,560 households were visited and information about 46,754 people. 2/3 pop
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LATER INTERPRETATIONS
J.Brown argues that Booth did allow his moral preoccupations impact his findings. As booth divided the population into various strata and focused on class A and class B this shows the common concern that the respectable poor would be infected by these other classes.
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He found that 28% of York were living in poverty. He worked out a minimum necessary wage of 21 shillings for a family to live in physical efficiency and he drew his poverty line at this point.
He worked out that 10% of people were living in "primary poverty" (could never make ends meet) and the other 18% were living in secondary poverty who had no leeway for emergencies.
He also found that childhood was linked to a cycle of poverty as when the child grew up they started to become wage earners.
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Before Booth conducted his study he was involved in the Mansion House survey which gave him experience along with Jesse Argyle, which gave him experience with a census and questionaire.
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