London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will No by Henry Mayhew

London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will No

Henry Mayhew

536 pages • first pub 1861 (editions)

nonfiction classics history informative slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking...

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 66 reviews

Moods

informative 100%
reflective 27%
sad 18%
challenging 9%
dark 9%

Pace

slow 70%
medium 30%

Average rating

3.86

See all reviews...

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.