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 in Mr Charles Booth's Inquiry: Life and Labour of the People in London Reconsidered (London: Hambledon Press, 1993), and to such online bibliographic databases as the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences and the Social Science Citation Index.

For works by Charles Booth and the principal members of his survey team the reader is again referred to the bibliography compiled by O'Day and Englander (1993).

• Books
• Articles
• Press cuttings
• Background reading on Victorian London

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
• Dorling, Danny, Mitchell, Richard, Shaw, Mary, Orford Scott and Smith, George Davey."The ghost of Christmas Past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991." In: British Medical Journal. No. 321, 23 December 2000, pp. 1547-1551
• 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.
• Mansfield, M. "Labor exchanges and the labor reserve in turn-of-the-century social reform." In: Journal of Social Policy. Vol. 21, no. 4, Oct. 1992. pp. 435-468
• Mansfield, Malcolm. "Putting moral standards on the map: the construction of unemployment and the housing problem in turn of the century London." In: The Journal of Historical Sociology. Autumn 2008.
• 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.

Press Cuttings

• Ferris, Caroline. "Flashback to the days when maps marked parts of Victorian London as 'Lowest class; vicious, criminal'." In: London Link. No. 33, Easter 2001, pp.18-19.
• Shaw, Caroline. "Poverty in Victorian London." In: The Library Association Record. Vol. 103, no. 4, April 2001, pp. 226-227.
• "Mapping poverty." In: Mercator's World. Vol. 6, no.3, May/June 2001, p.13.
• "Charles Booth's notebooks revisited." In: GEOEurope. April 2001.
• "Down-wind and out. Poverty has clung to some parts of London for at least a hundred years. Why?" In: The Economist. 13 January 2001, p.35.
• "Wealth of facts that displayed poverty of Victorian London life." In: The Times. 4 December 2000.

Background Reading

This is a selection of texts by Victorian writers about the poor in Victorian London.

• Dore, Gustave and Jerrold, Blanchard. London: A Pilgrimage. New York: Arno, 1978. xii, 191p. Illustrations. Reprint of 1872 edition.
• Hill, Octavia. Homes of the London Poor. London: Macmillan, 1883.
• Hollingshead, John. Ragged London in 1861. London: Dent, 1986. xxxii, 207p. Reprint of 1861 edition, with an introduction by Anthony Wohl.
• Hollingshead, John. Underground London. London: Groombridge, 1961.
• London, Jack. The People of the Abyss. London: Isbister and Company Limited, 1903. 322p. photographs.
• Mayhew, Henry. Mayhew's London: Being Selections from "London Labour and the London Poor". London: Spring Books, 1952, 574p.
• Mearns, A. The Bitter Cry of Outcast London. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1970. 155p. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Wohl. First edition 1883. Author now considered to be William C. Preston.
• Morrison, Arthur. Tales of Mean Streets. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1983.
• Sims, George. How the Poor Live; and, Horrible London. New York: Garland, 1984. 150p. Reprint of 1889 edition.
• Smith, Adolphe and Thomson, John. Street Life in London. New York: B. Blom, 1969. 142p. Photographs. First published in monthly parts from 1877 to 1888.