Retrieved Riches: Social Investigation in Britain, 1840-1914.

Abstract

Part 1: Social and economic thought - 1. social facts social theory and social change: ideas of Booth in relation to those of Beatrice Webb, Octavia Hill and Helen Bosanquet, Jane Lewis 2. between civic virtue and social Darwinism: concept of residuum, Jose Harris 3. Charles Booth as an under-consumptionist economist, Alon Kadish Part 2: methods of social inquiry - 4. comparisons and contrasts: Henry Mayhew and Charles Booth as social investigators, David Englander 5. interviews and investigations: Charles Booth and making of Survey, Rosemary O'Day 6. women and social investigation: Clara Collet and Beatrice Potter, Rosemary O'Day 7. paradigms of poverty: a rehabilitation of B.S. Rowntree, J.H. Veit-Wilson Part 3: retrieved riches: using Booth archive - 8. Charles Booth and social geography of education in late 19th-century William Marsden 9. working-class religion in late Victorian London: Booth's Religious Influences revisited, Hugh McLeod 10. Booth's Jews: presentation of Jews and Judaism in Life and labour of people in London, David Englander 11. representations of metropolis: descriptions of social environment in Life and labour, David Reeder 12. women in Victorian religion, Rosemary O'Day 13. gambling, the fancy, and Booth's role and reputation as a social investigator, Mark Clapson.