Abstract
MR. CHARLES BOOTH S great work Life and Labour of the People, which described conditions in London forty years ago, and introduced the method of measuring the extent of poverty with reference to a defined poverty line, has had as its sequel similar studies in a number of towns, including the New Survey of London Life and Labour, now approaching its completion. The School of Social Sciences and Administration of the University of Liverpool, under the editorship of Mr. Caradog Jones, has now issued the results of four years investigation on the social and economic condition of the working classes, of Liverpool, Birkenhead and neighbouring smaller towns, assembled under the convenient name of Merseyside.
The Social Survey of Merseyside.
Edited by D. Caradog Jones. Vol. 1. Pp. xxii + 328. 15s. net. Vol. 2. Pp. xvi + 413. 21s. net. Vol. 3. Pp. xviii + 560. 25s. net. (Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool; London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1934.) 3 vols., 45s. net.
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The Social Survey of Merseyside . Nature 134, 342–343 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134342a0
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