History A-Level

Poverty and social investigation

What Poverty and social investigation means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.

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Systematic surveys, such as Booth's poverty maps of London and Rowntree's York study, showed that poverty was widespread and often caused by low wages, illness, or old age rather than personal failure.

Pearson Edexcel · Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 4 Social and welfare reforms: pressure and action, 1880–1914 (study guide)

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Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 4 Social and welfare reforms: pressure and action, 1880–1914 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)

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