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London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

by Henry MAYHEW (1812 - 1887)

Sewerage Part 1

Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work." "The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to pourtray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places ..." "My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor ..." Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist. He compiled a four volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London, of which this is the second volume, published in 1816. - Summary by Peter Yearsley

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Listen next episodes of London Labour and the London Poor Volume II:
Crossing Sweepers Part 1 , Crossing Sweepers Part 2 , Crossing Sweepers Part 3 , Crossing Sweepers Part 4 , Crossing Sweepers Part 5 , Crossing Sweepers Part 6 , Sewerage Part 10 , Sewerage Part 11 , Sewerage Part 12 , Sewerage Part 13 , Sewerage Part 14 , Sewerage Part 15 , Sewerage Part 16 , Sewerage Part 17 , Sewerage Part 2 , Sewerage Part 3 , Sewerage Part 4 , Sewerage Part 5 , Sewerage Part 6 , Sewerage Part 7 , Sewerage Part 8 , Sewerage Part 9