0754642038
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. Booth was a young man who became a full-time evangelist, and founded what eventually became The Salvation Army. Marx was married and had a family, and had already been thrown out of several countries for his activism. She finds that they were both struck by the size and permanence of the residuum, and both sought change in the system rather than in individuals, though very different kinds of change.
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