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London Labour and the London Poor Contributor(s): Mayhew, Henry (Author), O-Day, Rosemary (Introduction by), Griffith, Tom (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1840226196 ISBN-13: 9781840226195 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 2008 Click for more in this series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
Dewey: 305.569 |
Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 4.9" W x 7.7" L (0.95 lbs) 688 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist's eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. 'To pass from one to the other', writes one authority, ' is to cross sides of the same street'. |
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