Introductory essay on the agencies for the suppression of vice and crime; a classification of workers and non-workers; chapters on the history of prostitution; prossitution in London; thieves and swindlers; beggars. Chapters are written by Mayhew and others. Illustrated from photographs and daguerrotypes, and with many maps and tables of criminal statistics. Written in the1840s, Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor is a detailed and far reaching examination of life in Victorian London, and Victorian life in general. It is a social observation which makes use of interviews and anecdotes, particularly with the lower classes, and provides details about poverty, class, work, crime, public health, sexual immorality, racial / cultural difference, religion, diet, disability. There are also large amounts of statistical information about population, crime rates, and income, particularly in the appendix of Volume 4. It provides a clear overview of the diversity of Victorian society, and is very useful for those studying attitudes towards different races / cultures, or portrayals of disability.
Item number | 46195 |
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Category | Book |
Type | London |
Dimensions | length 235mm; breadth 155mm; thickness 44mm |
Language | English |
Country of origin | UK |
Related people | Henry Mayhew (author) |
William Tuckniss (author) | |
Bracebridge Hemyng (author) | |
John Binny (author) | |
Andrew Halliday (author) |
Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection