Seven Articles on London Pauperism and Its Relations with the Labour Market
Author: Charles Edward Trevelyan
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 50
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Author: Charles Edward Trevelyan
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gareth Stedman Jones
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2014-08-19
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1781680124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators. Dickens, Mayhew, Booth, Gissing and George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few, developed a morbid fascination with its sullied streets and the sensational gulf between London classes. Outcast London explores the London economy, in particular its vast numbers of casual and irregular day labourers and the artisans and seamstresses engaged in seasonal and workshop trades. This vast assemblage was volatile, subject to the ups and downs of the world economy, to the vagaries of the weather, and to the rise and fall of various trades. Its crises could cause panic in wealthy London. New forms of charity came into being as well as, eventually, an embryonic form of the twentieth century welfare state. At first sight, the London described in this book is wholly remote from the city encountered today. But developments in recent decades reveal that the types of irregular employment, poverty and inequality experienced by modern Londoners are not so distant from those familiar to their Victorian and Edwardian ancestors.
Author: Brooke Lambert
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: London County Council
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStatistics of the Administrative County of London ... together with certain statistics of the adjacent districts.
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 632
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 680
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karel Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1315518597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1981, From Pauperism to Poverty consists of seven essays, three of which focus on the English poor law between 1800 and 1914 and four of which examine texts of social investigation by Mayhew, Engels, Booth and Rowntree. Rather than making a specialist contribution to the history of social thought and policy, the essays raise general questions about current ways of writing history and alternative analyses of specific texts or institutions are developed. In doing so, the previous histories of the relief of pauperism and the discovery of poverty are revised at many points. Most notably, it is demonstrated for the first time that relief to unemployed men was virtually abolished after 1850. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of social welfare and poverty.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 978
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery Office
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 556
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