What Price the Poor?: William Booth, Karl Marx and the London ResiduumRoutledge, 15 mai 2017 - 248 pages In this fascinating book, Ann Woodall investigates and compares the work and thought of William Booth and Karl Marx, who both arrived in London in 1849. She draws comparisons between their responses to the intractability of the poverty of the 'submerged tenth' of London's population, and argues that Booth's pioneering work in establishing the Salvation Army and the development of Marx's economic theory began in their interactions with the London residuum. Each recognised that much of the suffering was caused by the workings of laissez-faire capitalism and that its total solution required a challenge to the existing economic system. What Price the Poor? raises important questions about the relationship between theological discourse and the sociological imagination, and it firmly places the development of theoretical and practical social analysis and application within the context of social history. It will appeal to all with interests in classical sociology and the history of social activism. |
Table des matières
The Reverend William | |
The Revolutionary Philosopher | |
The Philosopher as a Prophet? | |
The Making of a General | |
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The Making of a Generals Mind | |
The General in Command | |
Fifty Years | |
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