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420blazeit's review against another edition
3.0
an easy read for one of my history classes. i only genuinely started enjoying this book starting from the second chapter. i just couldn't survive a whole chapter about food and dietary habits. otherwise, the author does a good job inserting personal accounts in between the facts and statistics. wish there were more stories, but that's what autobiographies and fiction are for
avethehuman's review
5.0
It's been YEARS since I read this, and assigned it in my Victorian Britain class, and in re-reading remembered how much I love this book and why. It's SO OLD, but still so good. Accessible to an undergrad audience, full of horrifying and fascinating and wonderful individual stories, and chock full of quantitative data. Great way to introduce the Victorian working class to my students. Yay!
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