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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Gibson-Brydon, Thomas R.C. (1976-2009)
Titre(s) : The moral mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London [Texte imprimé] : Charles Booth, Christian charity, and the poor-but-respectable / Thomas R.C. Gibson-Brydon ; edited by Hillary Kaell and Brian Lewis
Publication : Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (226 p.) ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Charles Booth's seventeen-volume series, The Life and Labour of the People in London
(1886-1903), is one of the staples of late Victorian social history. But historians
have paid comparatively little attention to its third section, on religious influences.
In this book, Tom Gibson-Brydon sets out to remedy this neglect of the religious dimension
by immersing himself in the largely untapped interviews of the 1,800 London churchmen
and women in the Booth archive at the London School of Economics. The first third
of the study discusses the philosophy of Booth himself and the genesis of the religious
influences series. The second third considers the agents of London charity: ministers
and philanthropic women. The concluding third focuses on the recipients of charity:
London's poor. The frank testimony of "social scientists," Christians, and philanthropists
deploying moralistic languages that stigmatized and excluded the despised underclasses
comes as no surprise. But what is more unexpected is the extent to which members of
the working classes themselves deployed moral segregation as they tried to maintain
their rank in the poor-but-respectable hierarchy. In critiquing the warm idea of working-class
solidarity and community-building traditionally portrayed by many leading social and
labour historians, the book argues for a much meaner, bleaker reality in London's
teeming neighbourhoods."
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kaell, Hillary. Éditeur scientifique
Lewis, Brian (1965-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Booth, Charles (1840-1916). Life and labour of the people in London
Pauvreté -- Londres (GB)
Classe ouvrière -- Londres (GB)
Oeuvres de bienfaisance -- Londres (GB)
Conditions morales -- Londres (GB)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780773598607. - ISBN 077359860X. - ISBN 9780773598614. - ISBN 0773598618. -
ISBN 9780773546875. - ISBN 0773546871. - ISBN 9780773546868. - ISBN 0773546863
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45499912c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45499912
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Table des matières : Introduction ; 1 Charles Booth: The Making of a Victorian Social Scientist ; 2
The zReligious Influencesy Series: What It Was and What Booth Proposed ; 3 "Ordinary
Mortals": History and Holy Men of London ; 4 Women and Charity: Love, Feminism, and
"Men's Worlds" ; 5 The Hard Lines of the Working-Class Hierarchy ; 6 Discipline
and Release: Religion and Drink ; Conclusion.