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The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes

The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes

Mayhew, Henry

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General SociologyBritish HistoryPoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 0486440060
ISBN13: 9780486440064
Publisher: Dover Pubn Inc
Published: Jul 25 2005
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves -- giving a literal description of their labour, their earnings, their trials and their sufferings, in their own 'unvarnished' language. With his collaborators, Mayhew explored hundreds of miles of London streets in the 1840s and 1850s, gathering thousands of pages of testimony from the city's humbler residents. Their stories revealed aspects of city life virtually unknown to literate society.

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