Routledge Revivals: Charles Booth's London (1969)

First published in 1969, this book presents a one-volume anthology of Charles Booth’s Life and Labour of the People in London , the classic early study of the poor in the urban environment. The original text consists of a vast compendium of descriptions of families, homes, streets, conditions of work, cultural and religious practices, much of it illustrated with charts, maps and statistics — giving the public an idea of the dimensions and meaning of poverty. The editors have selected the extract