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What Price the Poor?: William Booth, Karl Marx and the London Residuum.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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What price the poor?; William Booth, Karl Marx and the London residuum.

Woodall, Ann M.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2005

233 pages

$99.95

Hardcover

Rethinking classical sociology

BX9743

The residuum was what some social commentators in the middle 19th century called people in London who were outside the industrial advance and were either unemployed or rarely employed. Booth and Marx encountered the same people, and Woodall (London Guildhall U.) explores the differences and similarities of their perspectives and conclusions. ...

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