... with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes. By the end of the century thirty houses had been established on the model of Toynbee house. Charity work was a Victorian woman's chance to get out of the home. It fitted in with the religious message of the day Beatrice Webb - wealthy woman husband Sidney Webb _ Fabien Society "Class consciousness of sin" Philanthropy:- often motivated by religion and humanistic motives and by those conscious of the inequalities of life. Philanthropy:- a social control relief of boredom of wealthy snobbery and social ambition (donations and subscriptions to charities were published) fashionable amusement donator receives kudos. Poverty. Henry George an American journalist sent by his paper to be a London correspondant was struck by the sight of poverty and riches next to each other. He concluded that poverty was caused by the majority of land being owned by the few. Wrote "Progress and Poverty" 1889. Charles Booth surveyed first east ...

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