Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book concentrates on the UK industry. The Industrial Life Assurance (ILA) industry grew out of the demand for funeral cover. Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree defined necessaries, the rent, food, clothing, fuel and so on, but money was found for things, like alcohol, tobacco and gambling. It arises from the classical trade-off between comprehensive that accommodate the relationships between dependent factors but sacrifice clarity. When Raymond Chandler writes The Long Goodbye of the poverty of desire among the rich. Thomas Cranmers Anglican prayer of confession has followed the devices and desires of one own motive forces of which even the penitent is not fully aware. Investigators took almost no account of the customs of working people's lives, which would need to live as skilled dieticians with marked tendencies towards puritanism to achieve on their income.