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    Book Title
    London Labour and the London Poor (Classics of World Literature)
    Genre
    Population & demography
    ISBN
    9781840226195

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    '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'. AUTHOR: Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1857) was a playright and journalist, and co-founder of 'Punch' magazine. He was a social reformer, and wrote a series of articles for 'The Morning Chronicle' on the plight of the poor on London's streets. These were later collected into a book, 'London's Labour and London's Poor', a detailed and extensive account of life as it truly was on the streets of Dickens' London.

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    Wordsworth Editions LTD
    ISBN-13
    9781840226195
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
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    Number of Pages
    688 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Name
    London Labour and the London Poor
    Publication Year
    2008
    Type
    Textbook
    Author
    Henry Mayhew
    Subject Area
    Human Biology
    Series
    Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
    Format
    Paperback

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    198 mm
    Item Weight
    423 g
    Item Width
    129 mm

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    United Kingdom
    Title_Author
    Henry Mayhew

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