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Animal Kingdom
Author_Ann M. Woodall
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Booth's Organisation
Booth's Scheme
Booth's Work
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Booth’s Work
Bramwell Booth
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Catherine Booth
classical sociological theory
Conflict Free Societies
Darkest England
Drawn Back
East End
economic inequality history
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Harold Begbie
Industrial Reserve Army
Jam Factory
Mobile Guard
Moselle Region
Napoleon III
nineteenth-century London
origins of social activism in Britain
Pawnbroking Business
Physical Force Chartist
Relative Surplus Population
religious social reform
Robert Flint
Salvation Army
Societal Redemption
urban poverty analysis
Vice Versa
Victorian social policy
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William Booth
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754642039
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this fascinating book, Ann Woodall investigates and compares the work and thought of William Booth and Karl Marx, who both arrived in London in 1849. She draws comparisons between their responses to the intractability of the poverty of the 'submerged tenth' of London's population, and argues that Booth's pioneering work in establishing the Salvation Army and the development of Marx's economic theory began in their interactions with the London residuum. Each recognised that much of the suffering was caused by the workings of laissez-faire capitalism and that its total solution required a challenge to the existing economic system. What Price the Poor? raises important questions about the relationship between theological discourse and the sociological imagination, and it firmly places the development of theoretical and practical social analysis and application within the context of social history. It will appeal to all with interests in classical sociology and the history of social activism.
Ann M. Woodall is Chief International Auditor for the Salvation Army. She studied for her PhD at London Guildhall University, UK.
