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Highlights
- At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators.
- About the Author: Gareth Stedman Jones is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge University and in 2010 become Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London.
- 496 Pages
- History, Europe
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At 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.About the Author
Gareth Stedman Jones is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge University and in 2010 become Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of An End to Poverty? and Languages of Class: Studies in Working-Class History 1832-1982.Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x 1.7 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 496
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Europe
Publisher: Verso
Theme: Great Britain, General
Format: Paperback
Author: Gareth Stedman Jones
Language: English
Street Date: August 19, 2014
TCIN: 1006092420
UPC: 9781781680124
Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-3414
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 1.15 pounds
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