Further Reading on Booth
Numerous books, articles and theses have been written about, or make reference to, Charles Booth and his contribution to social research. The bibliography below is by no means exhaustive. The interested reader is referred to the bibliography compiled by O'Day and Englander (1993) and to such online bibliographic databases as the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences and the Social Science Citation Index.
Web sites
Books
- Booth, Mary. Charles Booth: a Memoir. London: sn, 1918. 176p. ISBN 0576785571.
- Englander, David. Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Britain: from
Chadwick to Booth, 1834-1914. London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. 142p. bibliog. ISBN 0582315549.
- Englander, David (Ed.) and O'Day, Rosemary (Ed.). Retrieved
Riches: Social Investigation in Britain, 1840-1914. Aldershot: Scolar Press;
Brookfield VT: Ashgate, 1995. 427p. bibliog. ISBN 1859282296.
- Fried, A. (Ed.) and Elman, R. (Ed.). Charles Booth's London: a
Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century. Drawn from His 'Life and Labour of
the People in London'. Harmondsworth: sn, 1969
- Hennock, E.P. "Concepts of poverty in the British social surveys
from Charles Booth to Arthur Bowley." In: Bulmer, Martin (Ed.), Bales, Kevin (Ed.)
and Sklar, Kathryn Kish (Ed.). The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 383p.
- Norman-Butler, Belinda. Victorian Aspirations: the Life and Labour
of Charles and Mary Booth. London: Allen and Unwin, 1972
- O'Day, Rosemary and Englander, David. Mr Charles Booth's
Inquiry: Life and Labour of the People in London Reconsidered. London: Hambledon
Press, 1993. viii, 246. bibliog. ISBN 01852850795.
- Pfautz, Harold W. (Ed.). Charles Booth on the City: Physical Pattern
and Social Structure. Selected Writings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
314p. bibliog.
- Simey, T.S. and Simey, M.B. Charles Booth: Social Scientist. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1960. 282p. ISBN 0313226105.
Articles
- Abe, M. "Charles Booth no shogai to gyoseki." In: Kumamoto
Tanki-Daigaku Fuzoku Shakai-Fukushi Kenkyujo-Ho. Vol. 7, 1979. pp. 57-72
- Abe, M. "Charles Booth no 'hinkon chosa' ni
tsuite." In: Kumamoto-Tandai Ronshu. Vol. 56, 1977, pp. 1-36
- Bales, Kevin. "Reclaiming antique data: Charles Booth's
poverty survey." In: Urban History Yearbook [UK]. 1986. pp.75-80
- Bales, Kevin. "Lives and labours in the emergence of organised
social research, 1886-1907." In: Journal of Historical Sociology. Vol. 9, no.
2, 1996, pp. 113-138
- Bales, Kevin. "Popular reactions to sociological research: the
case of Charles Booth." In: Sociology [UK]. Vol. 33, no. 1, February 1999.
pp.153-168
- Brown, John. "Charles Booth and the labour colonies." In: Economic
History Review. 2nd series. Vol. 21, 1968.
- Bruce, Veronica. "What to do with the submerged tenth? The social
question of poverty in late 19th century England." In: Proceedings of
the South Carolina Historical Association. 1996. pp.16-24
- Doron, A. "Definition and measurement of poverty - the
unsolved issue." In: Social Security. Vol. 2, July 1990. pp. 27-50
- Englander, David. "Booth's Jews: the presentation of Jews and
Judaism in Life and Labour of the People in London." In: Victorian Studies.
Vol. 32, no. 4, 1989. pp.551-571
- Gillie, Alan. "The origin of the poverty line." In: Economic
History Review [UK]. Vol. 49, no. 4, 1996. pp.715-730
- Hennock, E.P. "The measurement of urban poverty: from the
metropolis to the nation, 1880-1920." In: Economic History Review [UK]. Vol.
40, no.2, 1987. pp.208-227
- Lummis, Trevor. "Charles Booth: moralist or social
scientist." In: Economic History Review. 2nd series. Vol. 24, 1971.
- Marsden, W.E. "Residential segregation and the hierarchy of
elementary schooling From Charles Booth's London surveys." In: The London
Journal. Vol. 9, 1985.
- O'Day, Rosemary. "Interviews and investigations: Charles
Booth and the making of the religious influences series." In: History [UK].
Vol. 74, no. 242, 1989. pp. 361-377
- O'Day, Rosemary. "Retrieved riches - Charles
Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London." In: History Today
[UK]. Vol. 39, April 1989. pp. 29-35
- O'Day, Rosemary. "Before the Webbs: Beatrice Potter's
early investigations for Charles Booth's inquiry." In: History [UK]. Vol.
78, no. 253, 1993. pp. 218-242
- Rubinstein, David. "Booth and Hyndman." In: Bulletin of
the Society for the Study of Labour History. Vol. 16, 1968.
- Schubert, D. "Charles Booth - Entdecker der
'Zwei-Drittel-Gesellschaft' und die ' Arithmetik des Jammers'."
In: Jahrbuch fur Soziologiegeschichte. 1994. pp. 117-140
- Selvin, H.C. "Durkheim, Booth and Yule: the non-diffusion of an
intellectual innovation." In: European Journal of Sociology. Vol. 17, no. 1,
1976. pp. 39-51
- Spicker, P. "Charles Booth - the examination of
poverty." In: Social Policy and Administration. Vol. 24, no. 1, April 1990.
pp.21-38
- Topalov, Christian. "The city as terra incognita: Charles
Booth's poverty survey and the people of London, 1886-1891." In: Planning
Perspectives [UK]. Vol. 8, no. 4, 1993. pp.395-425
- Topalov, Christian. "La ville 'terra inconnue': l'enquete de Charles Booth et le peuple de Londres, 1886-1891." In: Geneses. Vol. 5, 1991.
Background Reading
- Dore, Gustave and Jerrold, Blanchard. London: A Pilgrimage. 1972.
- Englander, D. (ed) A Documentary History of Jewish Immigrants in Britain 1840-1920. Leicester University Press. 1994.
- Fishman, W.J. East End 1888. London: Duckworth. 1988
- Higgs, E. A Clearer Sense of the Census. London: HMSO. 1996
- Hollingshead, John. Underground London. London: Groombridge, 1961.
- Lambourne, Lionel. Victorian Painting. 1999.
- Lipman, V.D. A History of the Jews in Britain since 1858. Leicester University Press. 1990
- London, Jack. The People of the Abyss. 1902.
- Mearns, A. The Bitter Cry of Outcast London. 1883.
- Morrison, Arthur. The Street.
