Ideologies / Welfare Capitalist / B. Seebohm Rowntree
§ The minds · 1871–1954 · United Kingdom · Reformer & industrialist
B. Seebohm Rowntree
Measured poverty
The Quaker who made want a fact.
Economic+2
SocialistMarket
Governance−20
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+18
TraditionalProgressive
The chocolate manufacturer whose pioneering surveys of York defined the 'poverty line' and pushed welfare capitalism from charity into measured social policy.
social
Quaker reformer; pensions, housing and the poverty line.
economic
A capitalist who paid welfare wages and proved poverty was structural, not moral.
governance
Worked through liberal philanthropy and public commissions.
Notable for
- 'Poverty: A Study of Town Life'
- Defined the poverty line
- Model welfare employer
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