Publication date 1985 topics poor england london, working class england london, london england social conditions. I 1889 and labour and life of the people, vol ii 1891. In the 1840s he observed, documented, and described the state of. London labour and the london poor is a detailed examination of the characters who frequented the streets of that great city between 1860 and 1937. Life and labour of the people in london was a multivolume book by charles booth which provided a survey of the lives and occupations of the working class of late 19th century london. Jul 15, 2019 london labour and the london poor by henry mayhew, 1985, penguin books edition, in english. London labour and the london poor is a key work in the development of investigative journalism. 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. The present selection gives the best part of the original four volume book, which captures exactly what the title says london labour and the povertystricken people living there. London labour and the london poor by mayhew, henry.
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London labour and the london poor is a work of victorian journalism by henry mayhew. London labour and the london poor oxford university press. Taking the form of verbatim interviews that carefully preserve the grammar and pronunciation of every interviewee, the completed fourvolume work amounts to some two million words. London labour and the london poor by henry mayhew the. Though henry mayhew wrote several novels, his name is primarily remembered as the authorcomplier of this journalistic work london labour and the london poor.
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