Note 538 — Chapter VII

The results of twenty years of patient labour by Charles Booth and his assistants are embodied in the magnificent work, Labour and Life of the People(London, 1st edition, 2 vols., 1889-91; 2nd edition, 4 vols., 1893), reissued in greatly enlarged form as Life and Labour in London, 18 vols.; Pauperism and the Endowment of Old Age(London, 1893); The Aged Poor (1894); Old Age and the Aged Poor(1899); Industrial Unrest and Trades Union Policy(1913). In Charles Booth: a Memoir(1918) Mrs. Booth has given a personal biography (1840-1914) of a tireless investigator who, merely by the instrument of social diagnosis, got accomplished reforms of a magnitude that seemed at first wholly impracticable.