London Labour and the London Poor (Wordsworth Classics of

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London Labour and the London Poor (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
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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 possÃ‚Âessed 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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Country	USA
Brand	Wordsworth Editions
Manufacturer	Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781840226195
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781840226195
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

London Labour and the London Poor (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

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