London Labour and the London Poor : A Selected Edition, Paperback by Mayhew, ...

Description: London Labour and the London Poor : A Selected Edition, Paperback by Mayhew, Henry; Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (EDT), ISBN 0199697574, ISBN-13 9780199697571, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An extraordinary work of investigative journalism, literature, and sociology, London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles for a local newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian Londons underclass. By turns alarming, touching, and funny,
the pages of London Labour and the London Poor exposed a previously hidden world. Henry Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews that provided a first-hand account of costermongers and street-sellers, of sewer-scavengers and chimney-sweeps, creating an intimate and detailed portrait that offered
unprecedented insight into their day-to-day struggle for survival. Combined with Mayhews comprehensive data gathering, these stories have an immediacy that owes much to his sympathetic understanding and effective literary style. This new selection offers a cross-section of the original volumes and
their evocative illustrations, including among other features an introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst that illuminates Mayhews life and career, the genesis and development of th, and its influence on contemporaries such as Dickens and Kingsley.

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