booth,rowntree and the liberals Flashcards
Before the 20th century, what did the British working classes suffer from?
poor living conditions.
what did the government change their policy from ‘laissez faire’ to?
the creation of a welfare state.
who influenced the government’s decision to change their policy from ‘laissez faire’ to the creation of a welfare state?
the reports of charles booth and seebohm rowntree.
what was a problem for the working classes living in poverty?
Overcrowding and unsanitary housing.
who investigated living conditions in London in their 1889 report?
Charles Booth.
what was charles booth’s 1889 report called?
‘Life about Labour of the People in London.’
What % of the population in London did Booth discover lived in poverty despite having jobs.
30%
Some wages were so low in London that people couldn’t afford to?..
Live.
Charles booth showed that poverty?..
was linked to the nation’s high death rate.
what did the poverty life- cycle mean?
that people’s economic status could fluctuate during their life.
Who was Seebohm Rowntree?
A factory owner in York- making sweets like Fruit Pastilles and Randoms.
What did Seebohm Rowntree investigate in York in 1900-1901?
the living conditions in York.
who invented the term poverty line?
Seebohm rowntree.
what did the term poverty line mean?
minimum amount of money a person needed to earn to stay out of poverty.
what did seebohm rowntree estimate?- linked to the poverty line.
that 20000 people or 28% of the city’s population, at some point of their life, were below the poverty line.
