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Early writing on Charles Booth (1840-1916) placed his work in terms of the history of social investigation and claimed him as a social scientist. In particular, Thomas and Margaret Simey wrote in 1960 that Booth's most striking innovation was his invention of the poverty line; his definition of poverty was "perhaps the first operational definition in the social sciences," in the sense that his provisional hypothesis could be tested experimentally (p. 184). He intended to demonstrate that the incidence of poverty could be measured with precision, and its importance could be appraised, uninfluenced by emotion or doctrine. He distinguished between indolence and immorality, between poverty due to low earnings and poverty due to improvidence or immorality. His poverty line remained unaltered until further work had ...
by John Welshman ; edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams.
Includes bibliographical references and index.