Life and Labour of the People in London

Life and Labour of the People in London was a multi-volume book by Charles Booth which provided a survey of the lives and occupations of the working class of late 19th-century London. The first edition was published in two volumes as Life and Labour of the People, Vol. I and Labour and Life of the People, Vol. II. The second edition was entitled Life and Labour of the People in London, and was produced in nine volumes 1892–97. A third edition, running to a grand total of 17 volumes, appeared 1902–03.
A noteworthy feature of the study was the production of maps describing poverty. Levels of wealth and poverty found by the research's investigators were mapped out on a street-by-street basis.
The notebooks used to carry out this investigation are held at the Archives Division of the British Library of Political and Economic Science.