Retrieved Riches

Part 1: Social and economic thought - 1. social facts; social theory and social change: the ideas of Booth in relation to those of Beatrice Webb, Octavia Hill and Helen Bosanquet, Jane Lewis; 2. between civic virtue and social Darwinism: the concept of the 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 the making of the Religious Influences 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 the Booth archive - 8. Charles Booth and the social geography of education in late 19th-century London, William Marsden; 9. working-class religion in late Victorian London: Booth's "Religious Influences" revisited, Hugh McLeod; 10. Booth's Jews: the presentation of Jews and Judaism in "Life and labour of the people in London", David Englander; 11. representations of metropolis: descriptions of the 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.