5786 x 4340 px | 49 x 36,7 cm | 19,3 x 14,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1889
Ubicazione:
London
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'Descriptive map of East End Poverty, compiled from school board visitors' reports in 1887'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Charles Booth. Provenance: "Labour and life of the people. Volume 1: East London", edited by Charles Booth. Second edition, 1889, Williams & Norgate. Type: Antique folding linen-back colour-coded poverty map. The map covers the East End of London including Whitechapel, Stepney, Bethnal Green, Mile End & Limehouse. Charles Booth was a philanthropist and social reformer. He was critical of the existing statistical data on poverty in late-Victorian London. His research showed that 35% of the population were living in abject poverty - far higher than widely believed. He popularised the idea of the 'poverty line', and used his work to argue for the introduction of Old Age Pensions which he described as "limited socialism". He was not a socialist, but had sympathy with the working classes and argued that such reforms would help prevent socialist revolution from occurring in Britain. Map colour key: BLACK: Very poor, lowest class; DARK BLUE: Very poor, casual; LIGHT BLUE: Poor; PURPLE: Mixed with poverty; PINK: Fairly comfortable (little or no poverty); RED: Well-to-do; (YELLOW: Wealthy.)
