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See also:BOOTH, See also:CHARLES (184o– ) , See also:English sociologist, was See also:born at See also:Liverpool on the 30th of See also:March 1840. In 1862 he became a partner in See also:Alfred Booth & See also:Company, a Liverpool See also:firm engaged in the See also:Brazil See also:trade, and subsequently chairman of the Booth Steamship Company. He devoted much See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and no inconsiderable sums of See also:money, to inquiries into the statistical aspects of social questions. The results of these are chiefly embodied in a See also:work entitled See also:Life and Labour of the See also:People in See also:London (1891–1903), of which the earlier portion appeared under the See also:title of Life and Labour in 1889. The See also:book is designed to show " the numerical relation which poverty, misery and depravity See also:bear to See also:regular earnings and See also:comparative comfort, and to describe the See also:general conditions under which each class lives." It contains a most striking See also:series of maps, in which the varying degrees of poverty are represented See also:street by street, by shades of See also:colour. The data for the work were derived in See also:part from the detailed records kept by school-See also:board " visitors," partly from systematic inquiries directed by Mr Booth himself, supplemented by See also:information derived from relieving See also:officers and the Charity Organization Society. Mr Booth also paid much See also:attention to a kindred subject—the See also:lot of the aged poor. In 1894 he published a See also:volume of See also:statistics on the subject, and, in 1891
and 1899, See also:works on Old-See also:age See also:pensions, his See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for the latter depending on a general See also:provision of pensions of five shillings a See also:week to all aged persons, irrespective of the cost to the See also:state. He married, in 1871, the daughter of Charles Zachary See also:Macaulay. In 1904 he was made a privy councillor.
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