The moral mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London : Charles Booth, Christian charity, and the poor-but-respectable / Thomas R.C. Gibson-Brydon ; edited by Hillary Kaell and Brian Lewis.

By:

Gibson-Brydon, Thomas R. C, 1976-2009 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780773598607
077359860X
9780773598614
0773598618
9780773546875
0773546871
9780773546868
0773546863

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Moral mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London.:DDC classification:

305.5/690942109034 23

LOC classification:

HV4086.L66

Other classification:

cci1icc
coll13
cci1icc.
coll13.

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings ( 0 )
Title notes ( 4 )

No physical items for this record

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."-- Provided by publisher.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide